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...schoolboy when he won the National pentathlon in 1933. This spring Peacock did little except win the 100-metre dash and broad jump against comparatively mediocre competition at the Penn Relays. Last week was the first time he had jumped 26 ft. Son of a Union, N. J. tar tester, a competent but not brilliant student, Peacock runs without Metcalfe's finishing drive or Owens' smoothness, but with higher knee action than either. After his demonstration last week, the best explanation experts could find for this was the fact that Peacock, running in the East, had been handicapped by slower...
...despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
Undismayed, the pirate captain locked his Chinese crew aboard, sent his pirate friends ashore led by the supposedly brainy Swiss silk tester. They failed to come back. That night Captain Taudien paced his decks. Next morning he went ashore, was also nabbed by Japanese water front police. "We know who you Germans are," said the Japanese police captain wisely. "Sugar smugglers, that's what you are! We've had orders to watch out for sugar smugglers." Taking a long chance, the pirate captain roared, "Search my ship from stem to stern and you won't find...
...encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been especially moving, was let off with ten years imprisonment...
...anticipate from their comparative values that the lead alloy would be many times as sensitive to pressure effects as are the aluminum alloys or that the iron nitrogen alloy would show,--if, indeed, it shows anything,--a sensitivity so small as to escape detection by the usual Rockwell hardness tester...