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Myrna Loy blinks sweetly through hell and high water, and if she isn't completely oblivious to what's going on, she is well on her way. Asta, the poor man's Rin-Tin-Tin, is back again, but to most moviegoers his cute trick of looking for stray fire-hydrants is about as worn out as the hydrants must be by this time...
...four years has been the bane of my existence, spiritual and financial. My credo states as a fundamental premise that The Little Brown Jug belongs on a shelf in the Perry Field Athletic Building and that it is only a streak of bad luck that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number of Minnesota acquaintances here in Cambridge, and they all take pleasure in taunting me and betting money on the big game with me. Naturally, I cannot admit that I believe the Gophers have even a prayer of a chance, so I always...
Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
...French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going...
...rescue men said unexpectedly that he had seen a rabbit on the embankment. 'There,' said the small man, 'how they do stray...