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...Dreamer. At 73, Rupert Turnbull is stoop-shouldered, spry, twinkle-eyed, enthusiastic. A native of St. John, N.B., he graduated from Cornell in 1893, studied at Germany's Heidelberg, got his first job as a General Electric Co. engineer at Newark. In 1899 he inherited a fortune from his banker father, soon returned to New Brunswick to experiment in the new science of aerodynamics...
Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
...those profane words ["Quick, Watson, the needle!"] to his Boswell. His addiction to drugs was an early and passing phenomenon, inspired by boredom and abandoned in the maturity of his years. . . . But even in the days when the needle lay beside the gasogene and tantalus, Holmes did not stoop to call for it in such undignified terms...
Passion for Tunnels. Stoop-shouldered Long John Austin spent three years at the University of North Carolina's engineering school before skipping off to a Pittsburgh construction job. Within a year he was marked by his passion for tunnels. He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal. There he acquired more know-how, and a small, vivacious wife named Helen Daniels...
...seconds' warning, so sharpshooter gunners are being trained by special diet and physical exercises to quicken their perceptions. They must be able to range, sight and destroy targets within five seconds. Sharpshooters must agree to live a monastic regime. On duty the gunners are not allowed to stoop even to pick up a dropped coin...