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When anyone asks Coach Corry Wynn about his freshman squash team, Wynn's face brightens up like a picture window after a can of Glass Wax. The reason is quite clear...
Many stars are variable. The "novae" flash into sudden brilliance and then fade back to dimness. Others wax & wane regularly every few days. In a letter to Britain's Nature magazine, D. Stanley-Jones suggests that both types of uneasy stars may be natural versions of the man-made atomic bomb...
...voices of Queen Victoria and Jenny Lind were recorded in the late 19th Century, but no copies of the recordings were preserved. The voices of all U.S. Presidents since McKinley have been impressed in wax, as was William Jennings Bryan's famed "Cross of Gold" speech delivered at the 1896 Democratic convention. Other voices recorded for posterity: Tolstoy, Lloyd George, Florence Nightingale, Ellen Terry, Gladstone, Edwin Booth, Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt...
...main line of business. A concession has also been made toward other winter activities in terms of a full selection of skiis and snowshoes, a group of which are ingeniously gathered under the shop's Christmas tree to provide a Winter Motif. Socks, boots, mitts, poles, of course, and wax kits are also offered...
...headquarters were in a mud hut within a mud-walled compound. Outside the door a soldier hunched over a twig fire, drying his cotton shoes. Inside the hut at a table, the commander of Li's Eighth Army bent over a map. Two candles stuck in their own wax at the corners of the table were the only light. Li waved us to seats around the table and called for food...