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Enlighten me, kind sir, let my thirst for knowledge be quenched-what is this "ootch-magootch...
...esophagus against a stop-watch, and the takers were many. The present record is 2 min. 3 sec. and the contest is still open; but the jumbo is as big as ever. Interest has slackened a bit now the required deposit is up to $5 but the College thirst for beer hasn't diminished. Wartime dissatisfaction with 3.2 sent veterans skipping back to the O.G. and to the jumbo they dreamed of overseas...
...desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction was halted for months on end because the Chilean and Argentine Congresses did not vote funds (total cost: $30 million...
...transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul, can be explained only by their thirst for personal success...
...Stovepipe Wells in California's Death Valley, where many a forty-niner died of thirst before he could get to the gold fields, two resort operators sank a 200-ft. shaft, brought in a well producing 40 gallons of water a minute...