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...Swell," answers a hollow voice from the dictograph. "I've been waiting...
Cloth shrinks because its fibres have been stretched taut during weaving and finishing, and under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter dimensions. This phenomenon has pained no one so much as the shirt-wearing male -that is, until 1928. That year Sanford Lockwood Cluett of Cluett, Peabody & Co. invented Sanforizing-a mechanical method of preshrinking cloth back to its true dimensions. No wearer of even a $2 shirt now need tug apoplectically to button his collar after it has been washed...
When the Yale Daily News attained the age of sixty a few days ago, its editors contented themselves with printing President Roosevelt's "hearty congratulations," the Vassar Miscellany's "AVID INTEREST IN YALE DAILY NEWS STOP THINK ITS SWELL PAPER," and nineteen other testimonials. Rejoicing took the place of retrospection, and the editors never asked themselves if three score years had proven college journalism to be worth the candle...
...teachers listened to the roaring, buzzing sounds manufactured inside of George Yocum's head. A coal miner, George Yocum had been caught in a rock slide in 1935, suffered an injury to the carotid artery behind his right eye. The artery's weakened wall allowed it to swell out in a sac which was full of pulsing blood. In front, the sac caused the eye to protrude; in back, it throbbed against the skull, wore down the bone. The throbbing produced the noises in his head. At the university, the noises were picked up by a microphone, electrically...
Slowly making her way through dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited...