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...concrete water-meter cover-showed a disastrous bent for physics. He wrestled the slab to the Western Pacific Railroad tracks near San Francisco, confident that the train would do it easily. The Feather River Express rattled down the main line and hit the concrete block, the locomotive and tender jumped the rails, the baggage car rolled over with a crash, and five people were hurt...
...Gentle, tender, brave and true...
...Hamburg, well-dressed citizens hungrily peeked into garbage cans in front of Allied homes. There were few pets left in the city-an old household trick, now revived, was to soak cats in skimmed milk diluted with water for eight hours, to make them tender enough to eat. The current fee for prostitutes was two slices of bread. In Essen, where the official daily ration is 1.550 calories a day, some people were getting only 887-which meant three slices of bread baked with mixed cornmeal and wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of sugar...
Among the most intensive courses of its type, Economics A casts a more than healthy load of graphs, charts, and general figuring onto the tender shoulders of the average non-economist who finds himself enrolled. With the General Education program sweetening the pill of Natural Sciences, this course still on the shelf as a dose all history and government concentrators must get down...
...approaching a peak, is that they have become tough--or perhaps the better word is "hard", and brittle--and soft inside. They are safe from the depredations of new ideas; they find it easier to chew their own fat. The man Mr. Conant is thinking of may have a tender skin, but his nerves are awake and he is well-muscled...