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...examine the covers of several rebound books, you will discover that some have three small ridges close to the "spines". Instead of being a defect, these ridges indicate that the book's binding is particularly strong. In such instances, the cords left by the scamstresses are actually woven into the board of the cover, but otherwise the cords are merely frayed out, flattened, and glued down...
Into this them O'Neill has woven all the suspense possible. His main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved...
...Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate...
...trail blazer in the movement to liberalize Harvard education from over concentration, the field of History and Literature has woven two subjects involving completely different disciplines together in such a way that it affords the best general study of civilization offered in college. Because of its broad base and interest in different approaches, it binds the concentrator with but few restrictions and permits him to take a wider variety of courses than any other field except perhaps the new area Social Science field. The reason for the success of the field lies in the excellence of the tutorial staff...
Concerning Eli Whitney, scholars have ginned from history only a few pale fluffs of information. Roger Burlingame, social-minded historian of U. S. invention (Engines of Democracy, etc.), has woven these factual fluffs, plus a few skeins of imaginative ersatz, into an attractive fabric which is part novel, part biography: Whittling Boy-the Story of Eli Whitney...