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Greatest Mystery? The mysteries posed by U.S. caves alone are enough to tweak the curiosity of any red-blooded sleuth with a weakness for natural history. Is there one vast water-filled cavern system that arcs from Kentucky to Missouri under the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers? (The presence of one distinct species of blind fish in widely dispersed caves in the region implies such a linkage.) Why is Texas' Kiser Cave full of carbon dioxide? (Three airmen, equipped with oxygen tanks, almost died trying in vain to find the answer.) Do cave-dwelling bats have a burial ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure into Darkness | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...sack, containing $285, he scuttled out the door. It was the first time in all its 47 years, the management announced, that the hotel had suffered the indignity of a robbery. Such a moment could not go unrecorded. The Vancouver Sun, which occasionally yields to the temptation to tweak Victoria's stiff upper lip, assigned star Cartoonist Len Norris to the historical task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Bad Form | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

From Cuba to Cambridge to a lonely Overseer in Juneau, Alaska, University officers and students will fell a slight tweak at their pocketbooks as over 100 solicitors, by mail and in person, begin collecting this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Relief Campaign Starts Today; All Officers, Students to Be 'Tapped' | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...illustrate my point, I once more must beg to tweak back what remains of my poetic fringe, still my clanging bell bottoms and delve into rhyme with the following ditty entitled...

Author: By Ysoman Brill, | Title: Electronics School | 6/11/1943 | See Source »

...young polio* got the fright of his life as he crept up on the dozing Prime Minister (believing him to be tweakable Doc Mclntire) prepared to tweak his stomach, caught himself just in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Breathing Spell | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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