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...Lynn, Mass., a wild seal swam and dived in a stagnant inland pool beside a highway. Thousands of people paused to watch. Traffic on the highway came to a standstill. Unable to disperse the crowd the police, vexed, fetched a riot* gun, slaughtered the seal...
Venus of Venice (Constance Talmadge). The coy heroine dives frequently and attractively from the second story balconies of Venetian palaces into stagnant canal water in this trivially amusing comedy. She impersonates a gaminish thief. Antonio Moreno plays the harassed, handsome and wealthy hero who inevitably reforms...
...literally "killing." Inaudible to human ears, it consisted of extremely short, rapid sound waves produced from electrically driven quartz crystals. Similar waves had been used in submarine detection, during the War, when it was noticed that fish in the experimental tanks were occasionally killed. Subsequent experiment had shown that stagnant water could be freed from microorganisms; that small fish died in convulsions after "hearing" the quartz waves; that the blood count of a swimming mouse was reduced one half after 20 minutes' exposure. Possible significance: swift purification of water...
...said, "and similarly, if a man neglects the exercise of his mental and moral faculties, these become atrophied and useless. When all our acts are preordained and regulated by law, there is left no field for the exercise of our judgment, determination, or any of our faculties. These become stagnant, and the individual, deprived of that which made him an individual, becomes a mere puppet in the hands...
Malaria. Two million people die yearly from malaria. In the British Empire the yearly loss from malarial deaths and incapacities is about $300,000,000. A mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (southern U. S.) carries the disease fully 1½ miles from its breeding place in stagnant waters. These breeding spots must be cleaned up, the Board taught 12 states here. It explained the same in Porto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Palestine, the Philippines, Hayti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ceylon...