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Check-Raising Always a Danger A Scheme Almost Impossible to Prevent The American Bankers' Association the Greatest Foe to Forgers It Follows Them Relentlessly and Successfully Chemically Prepared Paper and Watermarks Not Always a Safeguard Perforating Machines and Check Raisers How Check Perforations Are Overcome How an Ordinary Check Is Raised How an Expert Alters Checks How Perforations Are Filled Hasty Examination by Paying Tellers Encourages Forgers The Way Bogus Checks Creep Through a Bank Unnoticed A Celebrated Forgery Case Forgers Successful for a Time Always Caught Where Forgers Usually Go That Have Made a Big Haul A Professional Crook Is a Person of Large Acquaintance.
At what rate these materials would be distributed and precipitated in regular strata it is impossible to determine; but that volcanic materials were so deposited in layers is evident from the relative position of the earliest rocks. I have already spoken of the innumerable chimneys perforating the Azoic beds, narrow outlets of Plutonic rock, protruding through the earliest strata.
I pointed out to her that although we could not so well enjoy the pleasure of kissing each other, we could at least better watch and observe each other's operations while my weapon was perforating her, as the reflexion of our figures in a large mirror, which I had purposely placed so as to produce the best effect, would add greatly to our enjoyment.
The Scotia hadn't run afoul of something, it had been fouled, and by a cutting or perforating instrument rather than a blunt one. This encounter seemed so minor that nobody on board would have been disturbed by it, had it not been for the shouts of crewmen in the hold, who climbed on deck yelling: "We're sinking! We're sinking!"
'We dropped it here!" He earned a living, we gathered, "some considerable way above the minimum wage," which threw a chance light on the labour problem by perforating records for automatic musical machines no doubt of the Pianotist and Pianola kind and he spent all the leisure he could gain in going to and fro in the earth lecturing on "The Need of a Return to Nature," and on "Simple Foods and Simple Ways."
Many cities which formerly lay at immense distances from each other, separated by intervening mountains of immense height, I united by perforating the rocks, and building spacious galleries through the hearts and bases of the mountains, and by throwing "aerial" bridges from one mountain peak to another. Henceforth I shall speak of all these cities as "Montalluyah."
The larva of one species of Dynastida, the Oryctes rhinoceros, called by the Singhalese "Gascooroominiya," makes its way into the younger trees, descending from the top, and after perforating them in all directions, forms a cocoon of the gnawed wood and sawdust, in which it reposes during its sleep as a pupa, till the arrival of the period when it emerges as a perfect beetle.
Afterwards the upper series was thrown down in horizontal strata upon it. It often happens that in the interval between the deposition of two sets of unconformable strata, the inferior rock has not only been denuded, but drilled by perforating shells.
The crustaceans live within their shells or take advantage of ready-made refuges of limestone, expelling their former owners; the animal-plants exhale toxins; the planctonic beings, transparent and gelatinous, burn like a crystal exposed to fire; some organisms apparently weak and flabby, have in their tails the force of a carpenter's bit, perforating the rock sufficiently to create a cavern of refuge in its hard interior.... And the timid mollusks, trembling and succulent pulp, have fabricated for their protection the strong shields of their valves, two concave walls that on opening form their door, and on closing, their house.
Then the young Crania adhered to the bared shell, grew and perished in its turn; after which the upper valve was separated from the lower before the Ananchytes became enveloped in chalky mud. Fossil and recent wood drilled by perforating Mollusca. Fossil wood from London Clay, bored by Teredina. b. Recent wood bored by Toredo. d. Shell and tube of Teredo navalis, from the same. c.
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