Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Properly timed, thinks Dr. Kreutzer, the singing current would even catch whales, forcing them to swim right up to the maw of a whale ship. When the whales arrived, he suggests, the current could be intensified, stunning them temporarily. Then the whalers or whale inspectors could measure each leviathan, noting...
A Quiet Beer. As a lone wolf who sometimes puts in 20 hours a day on his job, Presbrey has few friends among his more relaxed colleagues. Their grudging admiration is mixed with wonder at the chances he takes. In 1934, prowling in St. Paul, he stepped right into a...
To show up its own readers, Le Figaro sprinkled nearby news columns with deliberate errors in geography. But the edition was hardly on the streets before phone calls from indignant readers began to. come in, denouncing the editors for taking a ruler to the French when they couldn't...
After dark, while monks and nuns bustled through last-minute preparations, the Indians trooped into the mission plaza for a special movie program. Wrapped in striped blankets or sheepskin coats against the cold night air, they chuckled at a cartoon and slapstick comedy, tensely followed a hard-riding western. Next...
Try Again. Father Berard Haile (pronounced high-lee) has been at St. Michael's almost since it began. When he came to the mission as a young priest in 1900, it was a small experiment that seemed to have every chance of failure. Beginning in 1539, the Spanish Franciscans...