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High, but not too high above cloud-level, a big white Albatross circled serenely, its long, untidy wireless aerial dangling. The man in the machine with receivers to his ears listened intently for the faint "H D" which was his official number. Messages he caught mostly in English, for he was above the British lines. "Nine Four.... Nine four ... nine four," called somebody insistently.
Some held that its surface was depressed below the average cloud-level, and that the cavity was filled with vapours. Professor Wilson, on the other hand, observing with the 16-inch equatorial of the Goodsell Observatory in Minnesota, received a persistent impression of the object "being at a higher level than the other markings." A crucial experiment on this point was proposed by Mr.
If you are willing to follow the most inspired writers, in their most inspired moods, up into the heights whither the divine afflatus bore them, you will mount above the cloud-level, and leave to those who lag after feebler guides on the lower ranges of truth, the chill mists that eat into the soul, while you rejoice in the light.
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