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...cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists of Revolution into the garish sunlight of Empire...
...sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious, mocking eyes. Over this brilliant figure is thrown the red robe of the most enduring and majestic institution that the world has even seen. It is a convass that stands like a ray of sunlight among the darker imperial shadows of Winterhalter and the more obsequious court painters...
Types III and IV are usually present in the mouths of healthy people, become noxious under certain conditions of disability. For some reason doctors and nurses seldom contract pneumonia from their patients. But others may contract the disease in such numbers that an epidemic develops. Sunlight kills all types of pneumococci very rapidly (within iJ hours). In dark rooms the germs may live and infect for ten days...
According to best available computations, less than 50% of all U. S. homes measure up to the minimum standards of health and decency set by the National Housing Association. These standards include sunlight, proper ventilation, dry walls, garbage removal, adequate fire protection, a water closet, running water inside the house. A bathtub, central light, heat, and a telephone are not considered necessary...
...night pairs of blinking red & green lights mark the outlines of the U. S. S. Akron. By sunlight she is a shining, fat silver cigar. In fog or clouds, Pilot Ray Fuller of American Airways said last week, she is a "grey hulk" and a "menace." Pilot Fuller was flying the mail between New Orleans and Atlanta when his ship bored into a cloud bank near Mobile, Ala. Suddenly, he said, the Akron loomed dead ahead of him. He "punched the plane into a sharp wingover at 120 m. p. h. and came out underneath the dirigible." Said...