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...fullback who makes or breaks this offensive formation, for he is intrusted with both the deception and the power of the attack. Really the only man for the spectator to watch if he wants to see the plays unfold in true Harlow fashion, he is the one who gets the pigskin on almost every snap in this lineup, spins and fakes it to one, two, and sometimes three-on an end around--different men, often smashing at the line then himself. Of course, added deception comes in the fact that on a fast-breaking smash, the ball sometimes goes straight...
Before the war, antiquated river steamers puffed through the heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments...
There were a multitude of problems to discuss-military, political, postwar (see p. 18). The full significance of the conference was not yet known save by those who had taken part. It would unfold bit by bit, month by month...
With them in hand or enveloped, Dakar to the south of Casablanca could safely be left for later disposal, and the larger objectives of the U.S. entry into North Africa could unfold: first the joining of the U.S. forces in the northwest with the British in Libya, then the destruction of the Afrika Korps, the re-establishment of Allied mastery over the southern Mediterranean and finally assault on southern Europe...
...blood as antibodies, ready to attack any later enemies. Hence immunity. Pauling and Campbell made their artificial pneumonia antibodies from serum globulin extracted from beef blood. Steps in the process: 1) the globulin molecules were heated to 135° F. for two weeks to make their structures "unfold"; 2) a complex sugar secreted by the pneumonia type III bacteria was added to the flask; 3) the solution was slowly cooled so that the molecules folded up again. But influenced by the bacterial sugar, the folding molecules assumed a modified structure in the flask, just as they would in the blood...