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...dead cat is a problem, 213,835 might be considered a crisis. Yet last year New York City's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals without much ado disposed of that number in addition to 53,925 stray dogs and 1,858 miscellaneous horses, chickens, rabbits, pigeons...
...waved the finger and pushed back the upturned rim of his tan fedora revealing a stray black lock glued to his moist forehead. "Get a summons? Sure I got a summons. But I'm not going to see the commissioner. I've got no business with him. I'm a busy man. I've got no time to see him. I've got no business with him." Jabbing his finger at the inquisitor, Mr. Samuels emphasized the latter point, intimating that if the commissioner wished to satisfy his curiosity he could do so, but at 30a Boylston...
Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
...Michelson never doubted that light's speed was constant in vacua, the air even between lofty mountain peaks is no vacuum. In a valley near Pasadena he had built a mile-long tube of corrugated iron (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Powerful pumps sucked out all but a few stray molecules of air. The U. S. Coast &; Geodetic Survey measured the tube to within .063 of an inch. Then Dr. Michelson measured it. At one end of the tube was a 32-sided mirror which could be spun as fast as a bacteriologist's centrifuge. Light from this...
Five minutes later a misdirected artillery shell plumped into the Ford plant hard by the hotel. Stray bullets peppered buildings in which some 90 U. S. citizens live and work. From Washington, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull queried Ambassador Welles by telephone, then announced that U. S. Citizen Lotspiech was standing in a "needlessly exposed place" when killed, urged all U. S. citizens in Cuba not to expose themselves needlessly...