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...Favored by special steam ship rates and lower-cost accommodation, students can complete two to five years of graduate work in Tokyo at a fraction of the cost of such schooling in England or the United States." Tuition at the Government-financed Imperial Universities, whose entrance examinations are too steep for most foreign scholars, is dirt cheap: the equivalent of 27 U. S. dollars. Other universities are more expensive. What the Institute neglected to mention is that living by U. S. standards costs approximately $1,800 a year, half that amount if the student forsakes his Occidental mode of life...
They were as ready as British ingenuity and foresight could make them. Their cisterns, filled with rain water from great catchments on the Rock's steep eastern side, held 140,000,000 gallons of water...
French officers reported that in some tight spots, going up steep ground under blinding barrage smoke, young German soldiers advanced clutching each other's belts. They were mowed down in solid platoons. But the shouted war song of wave after wave of those still to come drowned out the dying screams of those ahead. Over this human pandemonium roared the steady thunder of German artillery blasting the infantry's way, French artillery replying with sheets of screaming metal to stop the endless horde, and roaring swarms of airplanes from both sides diving and darting over the battle...
...late Juan de la Cierva Jr.'s autogiro used helicopter principles in achieving steep take-offs and landings, but is no true helicopter...
Well, maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...