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Sailors traditionally raise hell in port, and David Frazeur. a seaman on the Steel Navigator, is a traditional sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back...
...animals, drinking unpasteurized milk. In its mild form the disease resembles influenza; severe cases are so similar to typhoid fever, tuberculosis, malaria or rheumatism, that they are often diagnosed incorrectly. A patient becomes constipated, irritable, suffers from severe sweats or headaches. Most distinguishing feature of the disease is a "tidal fever," which slowly advances during the fore noon, sweeps over the patient with fullest intensity from two to five in the afternoon, gradually recedes as evening draws on. Average course of the fever is six weeks, but it may disappear for several monthS, suddenly return, so that the average duration...
...question for meteorologists and geologists was, what caused this wall of water which, if it had occurred at sea, would have been called a "tidal wave"? Engineers of the U. S. Lake Survey at Detroit advanced several hypotheses. One was that the wave had been kicked up by a high wind or thundersquall in midlake...
...Hanover the Lowell hoopmen bowed to Delta Kappa Epsilon, Dartmouth intramural winners, 28 to 18, and an all House boxing team and an informal group of squad wrestlers lost to corresponding Green teams 4 1/2 to 2 1/2 and 16 to 5 respectively. A Davenport tidal wave submerged the Kirkland swimmers...
...past eight years I have crossed this river almost twice daily, and have seen it sometimes as mudflats, sometimes brimming to the base of Cleopatra's Needle. The Thames is tidal to above London, and suicides' bodies are generally recovered miles downstream...