Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty shows, rodeos, aquariums, stockyards. It has football stadia, fisticuffing gardens, chambers of horror, mad- houses. Also zoos, museums, 5-&-10-cent stores, a diamond horseshoe, divorce courts, a Congress and other exhibits. But, according to Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural History, one thing the U. S. has not got for its people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium...
...When an amateur horseman takes a jump, one of two things is apt to happen. Either the man is determined to take the jump and does, regardless of whether the horse has stopped or not, or else he gets over the jump only to land with his arms lovingly clasped about the horse's neck. The only thing that has kept many a man from falling off after a jump," added the captain "is the fact that the horse's ears were pricked up. If they had been pointed forward, the rider would have slid off immediately...
When asked if he thought the present disturbances would result in unification Mr. Gray said that such a thing is possible but that he did not consider unity a probability in the near future...
...that might be torn out of the context; bits (and good bits they are) are stuck in from the diary he kept during a tour on the continent. His genius for parody is at par in a novelette that takes Sir Walter Scott for a dizzy ride. The whole thing is a hodge-podge of good, bad and indifferent, consistently interesting only to a person who takes everything so seriously that he must study the development of the another of "Alice...
...necessity of playing in a room kept at 80 degrees temperature because bil-Hard balls are most resilient at this temperature. In fact, the opening of a door, which allows a cold gust of air to enter the room, causes an immediate deadening of the balls. Another thing which shows the peculiarly delicate character of the ivories is their comparative life in high or low ceilinged rooms. In a low room conditions are best. How to judge conditions and their effect on the responsiveness of the balls is one of the essentials of championship calibre...