Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 136
vents light objectsfrom moving fast. If it were not for the air,your arrow would need to have neither head nortail. A feather would drop to the ground as fastas a bullet. It would be no difficult matter for a ball-player to throw a feather across the dia-mond, and home runs would be as common… … HALLEYS COMET LAST EEBRUARY (19I0), WHEN THETAIL WAS JUST BEGINNING TO GROW. suns rays, and sweep around with never morethan a slight curve of the tail. If we werewithin a few feet of the tail, we should nt hear asound, not the slightest swish, because it is travel-ing through a vacuum. It is this…
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