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After giving The Chief's silk hat (which The Chief detests) a final swirl, Boris, with others, got into an automobile and was driven off through crowded streets to the Capitol: a monstrous building with a domed centre, .the like of which you never see in the Balkans. A nipping wind blew up from the Potomac. The clouds were growing thicker. Boris was distressed...
...golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery. A bit of Beethoven. A bar and an arm tightening about a waist. A swirl of skyrockets. A sudden...
...against the atoms of elements might conceivably change those elements into new and precious forms. Mercury might yet become gold, as alchemists dreamed. Theoretically the procedure is simple. An atom of mercury contains at its centre, 198 protons (positively charged particles) and 118 electrons. Around that nucleus swirl 80 more electrons. These complete the mercury balance of 198 electrons against 198 protons. An atom of gold contains 197 protons and 118 electrons in its nucleus and 79 more electrons shooting around them. If it becomes possible for the beta particles from Dr. Coolidge's tandem tubes to blast...
...addicts agreed the race was the most spectacular ever ridden in Manhattan. Necessarily slow hours of daytime and early morning riding were followed by wildest maelstroms every evening. Nearly every team in the ride led at one time or another. The winners were once five laps behind. The stunning swirl of darting, stumbling, riders that follows every attempt at a stolen lap was virtually continuous through the evening-hours when the crowd is thickest. 360 laps were stolen by the teams in six days; the old record...
...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...