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...short-answer test the candidate is examined on three subjects which he picks from the following nine: biology, chemistry, physics, French, German, Latin, Spanish, social studies, spatial relations (e.g., shown a profile view of a telephone instrument, a candidate may be required to draw the unseen dimensions...
Mapping the Unseen. Land never seen by human eyes is now being mapped by its photographed reflection on the moisture-filled sky above, said Geographer Paul Siple. Flying over an unexplored coast, the scientists' plane reached the limit of its range, was forced to turn back from an inviting horizon. Distant bays and points, they noticed, were reflected in the sky. And because the reflecting moisture layers were higher than the plane, they clearly outlined the coastal pattern well below the flyers' horizon. Though observed before in polar regions, this phenomenon has never until now been trusted...
Evidence of Things Unseen. When the train bearing Author West and her husband made its first stop in Yugoslavia, an elderly white-haired man trotted along the platform, calling softly: "Anna! Anna! Anna!" It was raining, and "he held an open umbrella not over himself but at arm's length. He had not brought it for himself, but for the beloved woman he was calling. He did not lose hope when he found her nowhere in all the long train, but turned and trotted all the way back, calling still with anxious sweetness: "Anna! Anna! Anna!" Says Author West...
...plummeting shriek of bombs was the first warning the Germans had that there was something new over the western front. Thirty thousand feet above the battleship Gneisenau, lying camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective...
...Unseen by the raider, the last boat, a 16-ft. jolly boat containing seven men (the ship's chief officer, third engineer, wireless operator, gunner, three seamen), got safely away...