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...over onto her almost horizontal side. At that point the ship quivers convulsively, shakes many of them off into the water. Others manage to stay on the St. Stephan's upside-down hull as she turns completely over. Finally she and they go down together in a great swirl of water...
Lately the packers have been enjoying modest prosperity. They have to carry vast inventories which in meat's present upward swirl have proved wonderfully profitable. Employment is at least 110% of normal. Last week, after decorous palaver with employe representatives, the Big Four consented to up wages 8%. Topping an 18% increase at the start of NRA another 10% boost last December, last week's raise put the industry's wage scales above 1929 levels. Little packers throughout the Midwest promptly followed suit...
...fiddled with the ropes Sergeant Irvine smelt smoke. It curled in tiny wisps from the apartments of the private secretary. As he raised the alarm crackling flames burst through. Before fire engines could travel the twelve miles from Belfast, Hillsborough Castle was leaping skyward in a vast, black swirl...
...determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...changing ideas of education of the day. It was a time when the elective system and the high standards of the University were under fire and the way with which the President handled his tasks is extremely interesting reading to those who today are involved in the changing swirl of education...