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...game series. The second game, at Baltimore, won by Canada, 1 to 0, was interrupted by a fist fight between a St. John's defense man and an All-Star forward, in which both teams and 200 spectators participated. Police restored order. Later, a violent thunder storm drenched field, players, 8,000 spectators...
...little group sat down before one of the young medics began mouthing pendantically about his sacra lillac joint. In his usual gallant way the Vag abond played the game. "I find that front bites better with a Dowaglac." O God, O Montreal what had he done? Laughter, like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part of anatomy. From that opening salvo it was as impossible to turn the conversation into familiar channels as to stem the full tide. Those boys so normal in college days, who had hung on the Vagabond's every word...
ARMY & NAVY Last week a great olive-green snake with a hiss-like thunder hovered in the skies over the eastern half of the U. S. Sometimes it strung out in a disjointed line 20 mi. long. Sometimes it coiled in angles and echelons over cities. In the evenings it disintegrated, scattered down to rest for the night. For the first time, the Army had mustered its entire air strength for maneuvers. The 672 green-bodied, yellow-winged planes-205 pursuit, 335 observation, 51 attack, 36 bombardment, 45 transport-composed the greatest peacetime concentration of aircraft in U. S. history...
...rare porcelain jug, of the "Thunder" variety was recently found on the piano in the House common room, together with a framed inscription from the anonymous donors reading: "This bowl is presented to the Lowell House crew in recognition of its undefeated season, and is to remain a perpetual trophy of the annual Lowell-Dunster race...
...lowest tones in nature are made, not by thunder as many might think, but by giant waterfalls, according to an announcement made last week by Dr. William Braid White, acoustic expert for American Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle...