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...suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones in recent weeks disclosed the following...
...stern object lesson. Taking off at night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...they lose all desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been on relief, getting $10 a month, for a year and a half. What chance did Rose...
Most notable quality about the girl characters in Spring Dance is their idiom, said to be peculiar to Smith's Dawes House. To be "smit" is to be in love. A "thicket" is what was formerly known as a necking party. "Plent" signifies pleasant. Critics agreed that Spring Dance is "plent" rather than plausible...
...suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradoxes flourish in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones during the past fortnight disclosed the following...