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  2. SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS.

    "Geometry teaches us to bisex angles; an oxygen has eight sides." The above are two gems from a rich mine of schoolboy howlers ...

    Article : 155 words
  3. ORIGIN OF LIFE.

    What do scientists know of life's origin? Have they even some vague idea of the way in which it appeared on the surface of the globe? ...

    Article : 460 words
  4. WHY WHIST?

    Whist drives are very popular, but how many of the people who play, or even win prizes, at whist, know how it got its name? ...

    Article : 170 words
  5. BLACK MAMBAS.

    At a point some sixty miles north of Zeerust and then west of the stretch of line that makes the boundary between Bechuanaland and the ...

    Article : 1,157 words
  6. MARRYING THE PARISH.

    As a girl I lived in a London suburb. I went to school, I had plenty of dances and tennis parties, I helped my mother in the house, and led ...

    Article : 287 words
  7. BREAKFAST IN BED.

    When I woke up last Sunday morning it was rather late! I just lifted my head from the pillow, had a quick look round and then lay back ...

    Article : 817 words
  8. HANDS THAT HEAL.

    Medical science has made giant strides during the last fifty years. In fact, it might be said with truth that the healing art has been ...

    Article : 757 words
  9. LIVING WITHOUT AIR.

    When the weather becomes mild certain animals which have been spending the winter buried in the ground or in trees wake, before their ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. ANCIENT FOREST INDUSTRY.

    Charcoal burning has been an industry of the New Forest, England, for over a thousand years, but the families plying this ancient trade ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    A man may paint a picture and yet be unable to draw a cheque. If doctors don't know the cause of sleep, there are boxers who do. ...

    Article : 481 words
  12. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    A floating mine recently found in the North Sea contained 300lbs. of high explosive. A single seater monoplane called ...

    Article : 269 words
  13. TELL-TALE NAILS.

    If you have had much experience of hospitals, you may have noticed that when a street-illness case is brought in for treatment the house ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. MECHANICAL CHIMNEY SWEEP

    The amount of soot that collects in large works where hundreds of tons of coal arc burned in a day is so colossal that it takes a steam ...

    Article : 171 words
  15. A PLANET THAT EXPLODED.

    Will the earth blow up? Science Bays it might happen. Apparently that very thing happened to a companion world of ours which exploded, ...

    Article : 311 words
  16. PARACHUTE PLANES.

    A new type of aeroplane is arousing much interest among engineers and aviators. The wings of this machine are so ...

    Article : 100 words
  17. MAKING'THE WIND WORK

    If we could bring the wind into subjection, and store it for power purposes as we do water, it would enable us to scrap our coal-mines ...

    Article : 203 words
  18. CHURCHES IN BUSINESS.

    An old Jewish synagogue in Maiden Lane, London, is now used as a theatre for rehearsals, and a Methodist chapel in Southwark, where ...

    Article : 130 words
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