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...detecting "magnetic waves" (which do not exist) with a magnetron (a radio transmitter tube, not a detection device). Flying saucers, says Dr. Gee (quoted by Scully), travel among the planets by magnetism. Their 3½-ft. crewmen have perfect teeth with no cavities. For food they carry little wafers. One wafer was dunked in a gallon of water. "It swelled up and overflowed. It was fed to guinea pigs and they thrived on it." On another memorable occasion, Dr. Gee saw several little men hop into an undamaged space saucer and make it disappear like a "hallucination...
...miracle (so runs local legend) concerns a Bohemian priest, Peter of Prague, who, on his way to see the Pope in the year of 1263, was tortured by doubts whether the wafer he consecrated really became Christ's body, as church doctrine said it was. Miraculously at Bolsena, a small town near Orvieto, the Host began to bleed in Peter's hands. At Mass, spots of blood fell from the wafer onto the corporal, a white linen cloth upon which the chalice rests while on the altar...
...here's that man himself," cried the announcer-"Arthur, the-man-with-the-natural-look, Godfrey !" Wearing his earphones, a swept-up shock of copper hair and a winning, country-boy grin that belied his 46 years, the big-shouldered man at the desk shifted a candy wafer in his mouth and asked plaintively: "Now what am I gonna do with the last half of this Life Saver...
When swords went out of fashion, Solingen's craftsmen turned their skill to the making of bayonets, cutlery, scissors, surgical instruments, straight razors, and even wafer-thin, newfangled safety razor blades...
...scribes and coaches are to be believed, Yale will win today by a wafer thin margin. Seven out of eight polled last night gave the Elis the nod--but not by much...