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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Hippopotamian. Logic. Therefore oak trees grow in Africa. Why? Suppose, on the
contrary, that oak trees don't grow in Africa. Then squirrels hibernate in the winter,
and hippos eat acorns. Therefore I'll eat my hat. But I won't eat my hat, ...
through the solitary wilds of southern Africa; but neither the hippopotamian or
rhinoccrian flesh-feasts of the former, nor the rich belluine spoils of the latter,
open up anything like a satisfactory vista into the forest of difficulties with which
the ...
3
The Big Jiggety: Or the Return of the Kind of American
After placing my bag on the rack, I wedged in as best as I could. She gave me a
kindly smile but the conversation did not go beyond that point. Squashed
between my elbow-rest and a hippopotamian thigh, I tried to make do. Or at least
breathe ...
... in the air as if he had just escaped from a trap, and his off foreleg is the foot of a
human being; his tail is very like the Prince of \Vales's feathers ; his mane is
plaited, his ears droop, his eye is perfectly round, and his lips are hippopotamian.
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Holidays with hobgoblins
... his tail is very like the Prince of Wales's feathers ; his mane is plaited, his ears
droop, his eye is perfectly round, and his lips are hippopotamian. Job Fincel, who
stands godfather to the greater part of these wonderful creatures, assigns a town
...
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The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition
The computers proliferated, and generation followed generation, until now the
fifty dollar hand-held job packs more computing power than the hippopotamian
hulks rusting in the Smithsonian: the ENIACS, the MARKS, the SEACS, and the ...
Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto, 2011
He was clearly on leave when doing screen duty as a modern soldier—Kit
Carson holidaying with the Seabees.12 In his own clumsy productions, the
elephantine Alamo was at least more convincing than the hippopotamian Green
Berets.
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An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: 1801-1953
The mills gnawed grain, the haystacks moved about, The potters splashed
around hot clay in measure, While Rome in epicurean displeasure A
hippopotamian whip lashed out. But he could suffer all. And so, stouthearted, He
gave his ribs ...
9
The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition
The computers proliferated, and generation followed generation, until now the
fifty dollar hand-held job packs more computing power than the hippopotamian
hulks rusting in the Smithsonian: the ENIACS, the MARKS, the SEACS, and the ...
Philip Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto, 2011
10
Entrepreneur Extraordinary: Biography of Tomas Bata
Mankind had not yet developed a hippopotamian skin in its moral insensitivity
towards injustice, suffering and wrongs. Millions of dead and maimed had to be
sacrificed to develop the skin and rivers of blood were to flow to drown mankind's
...
