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...alter its course of rapid social change. Far from being in these days of increasing prosperity a relaxed luxury liner drifting through seas of self-satisfaction, the U.S. is, more than ever, on a cruise of experiment, an amazing and perilous voyage of discovery toward the unknown potentialities of brotherhood that may lie beyond mere material prosperity...
...least a week and reached Manhattan Island (the lower part of which the British had captured since Hale left Norwalk), that he collected detailed maps of fortifications, with Latin notations in the margins, and hid them under the inner soles of his shoes. Just how he was captured is unknown, but one story put it that he was recognized by a Tory relative as he sat in Rachael Chichester's tavern ("Mother Chick's"), and betrayed...
...Peru's coast is even more paradoxical than its mountains: it is a desert that blooms, an air-conditioned strand in the tropics. Only 10 to 100 miles wide, the coastland stretches for 1,400 miles. Rain is virtually unknown there, but 52 well-fed rivers poke down the plunging mountains. Dammed and channeled, this water turns the valleys green with sugar cane, ripens grapes for Peru's famed pisco brandy, grows the fine, long-staple cotton that is king of the country's exports. The Humboldt Current cools the whole coast, and as a crowning convenience...
...famous historian inserted the following notice in the Harvard Crimson: "History 60a. 'Ship Lively' shoves off for the West Indies and parts unknown . . . at 9:15 o'clock in the morning. Crew may obtain a chart of the West Indies by calling at Widener 417." To the crew concerned, the meaning of the notice was abundantly clear. It was simply Samuel Eliot Morison's salty way of telling his students the time and place of their midyear exam...
...results were conclusive. The X rays showed that the paint in the National Gallery's Francia did not have the heavy amounts of lead carbonate usual in most Renaissance paintings. Infra-red exposure for half a minute revealed black pencil lines under the paint (unknown in Francia's works). More important the pencil sketch was not in Francia's style. Under the microscope the painting's craquelure, instead of conforming to the regular pattern, spidered over the painting...