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...Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to save their wornout conveyances. The Women's Chamber of Commerce called an "emergency" meeting. Mayor Lapham, who had already ordered ten specially powered buses, grunted: "Sentimentalists do not have to pay the bills...
...Charles Darwin was a bubbling young naturalist, he began his famous voyage on the Beagle. While crossing the South Pacific, he was fascinated by the ring-shaped coral islands, which he decided to call "by their Indian name of atolls." He wondered about those saucers of coral standing on steep-sided platforms above the deep ocean floor. Why their ring shape? How had they been formed? It was known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths. The atolls, he concluded, must have...
...whirlwind: Cologne Cathedral, nicked and shaken, stood like a mother without children, in the dead city. Dresden's baroque beauty lay shattered from an aerial bombardment in the last weeks of the war. It was as though such medieval beauties as Darmstadt, Niirnberg and Hildesheim, with its steep-gabled Butchers' Guildhouse, had never been...
...pure space-gliding, only cheaters use power. But Professor Herrick believes that real space ships will use their power in spurts to correct their courses and climb steep gravitational grades. He does not hanker to make any voyages himself but he has thought deeply on the subject. "On a voyage to Venus," he says, "we should take both sexes, if we plan to do any colonizing...
...toiled up the heights discovered no key to the mystery. The plane had ploughed into a steep cliff, 50 feet below the top of the hill, had vanished almost as completely as if the fire-blackened rock had opened and engulfed it. There were a few pieces of metal, few larger than a man's hand. Fifty feet from the point of impact lay a golf club and a child's toy train...