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Equaeverpoise. Des Moines citizens who were curious about Lawsonomy could find some books and newspapers on the subject in the city library. Lawsonomy is to produce "the master human intellects of all time." It introduced "zigzag and swirl movement" and the law of penetrability. Samples of what the new university will teach and give degrees for: "From waste matter . . . elements of air and water . . . [and] from the Sun, Menorgs create living things. . . . The Menorgs found it more difficult to balance a two-legged animal than ... a six-legged one.... EQUAEVERPOISE of man is effected principally in three ways: 1) Nourishment...
...order, "unessential" civilians were evacuated. The Berlin radio claimed that more than a million people jammed trains and busses, carrying bundles, dragging children. The alarm rose when the R.A.F. served official notice on Berliners that their city was the next target. In the parks and squares, perspiring citizens dug zigzag trenches while the long hospital trains with bomb-wounded crawled through the town...
...hurdles. The second course on the menu is the high frame ladder for stretching all those weary muscles; and then from the heights down to the depths of a fire trap. Then just to keep themselves going, they practice the art of balancing on a forty-foot combination of zigzag rails. Next, as if they hadn't had enough they go back up into the air over a seven foot wall, clambering over it in a manner similar to the way Tarzan swings from tree to tree, with the aid of ropes. The most interesting part of the Obstacle Course...
...Road is long. It would zigzag from Cape Henry, Va. to Dayton, Ohio, to Paducah, Ky., to St. Joe, Mo. Along its length it is littered with the broken materiel of war and the stiff, broken bodies of German and Italian dead...
Best new children's game is Ranger Commandos, a parchesi-type in which little barges set out across open water, zigzag to landings, and move little wooden commando pieces inland to destroy such objectives as a tank factory, railroad yards, munitions plant, etc. Players return posthaste, unless captured, whenever any player lands on a spot marked with an enemy sentry. First one back with the most points of destruction wins...