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...Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such as a waisthigh, samovar-like receptacle of tarnished silverplate sporting an impudent spiggot. There were even sales tickets on the coiled hempen ropes down which no one had ever had to make a fire escape...
People began to fight for escape. They climbed on those who had gone down, and the pile of the fallen grew waisthigh. Those who kept their feet were gripped by fear and the mob. Patricia screamed: "Daddy, I can't stand it any more, I'm dying." Mr. Johnes tried to shove and make room for her, but he was unable to move an inch. Finally Mr. Johnes grew faint, his arms grew numb. Peter slipped down along Mr. Johnes's body until the dead boy's feet touched the floor...
...stack of discs stands waisthigh, big 16-inch transcriptions, some 100 hours of music, a recorded hullabaloo of wails, twangs, drumbeats and gong-whams. It is the biggest mass of raw material that U.S. musicologists and anthropologists have yet had from the East Indies and the South Seas...
...that time Southerners used only one method of getting pitch out of a pine tree: Slash the trunk about waisthigh, let it drip into buckets. Some 12,000 farmers are still collecting pitch by gashing their pines with "catfaces" and having it distilled into 80% of the naval stores produced in the U. S.* In the early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this...
...unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before being able to identify land beneath them through the snow. Gauging their position by the shore line, they found Barrow and landed with the snow drifting waisthigh. Blizzards and fog had kept them there six days before they could start back to Fairbanks...