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Equaeverpoise. Des Moines citizens who were curious about Lawsonomy could find some books and newspapers on the subject in the city library. Lawsonomy is to produce "the master human intellects of all time." It introduced "zigzag and swirl movement" and the law of penetrability. Samples of what the new university will teach and give degrees for: "From waste matter . . . elements of air and water . . . [and] from the Sun, Menorgs create living things. . . . The Menorgs found it more difficult to balance a two-legged animal than ... a six-legged one.... EQUAEVERPOISE of man is effected principally in three ways: 1) Nourishment...
This pig-faced idol of 30,000 trusting Alaouites is sated with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned...
...Boulder City, Nev., stretches this waste of land that only the Army could want. Where a year ago there were only parched hamlets hundreds of miles apart, now there are seven major camps, dozens of other establishments, nine airdromes, 42 landing strips, five major hospitals. Across the desert swirl 25,000 general-purpose vehicles (jeeps, etc.) and 2,500 tactical vehicles (tanks...
...flat-surface buildings, roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every 100 sq. yd.) on to it. (The feathered mesh is sprayed with a neutral...
...weeks in the war had brought the U.S. so much troubled news on the home front. Newspapers could scarcely keep up with the wild swirl of domestic events: edition by edition, the big, black headlines shifted...