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It was described in Scientific American the following year, but Gorrie still had to attract venture capital to fight the existing ice-block industry.

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Heavy ice-block feet chilled in her dampened sneakers as she waited for her bones to settle back into their rightful places.

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"It's a very profitable business," says Jassim Saleh Muhammed, 65, owner of an ice-block store in Baghdad.

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In the bus station, which is littered with ice-block wrappers and sugar cane scraps, you stand with your backpack and a bag and look around for a while.

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At last, it was 28th September, the little _Vega_ was finally and hopelessly frozen into the ice, and they made her fast to a large ice-block.

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Around this ice-block, from either side, as though they had been waiting purposely to ambuscade him, shot several animals, who charged him without as much as a whine.

On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood

They soon discovered, however, that lozenges were utterly powerless to keep out that biting air, and the Bear-mother seated herself resignedly on an ice-block.

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Two of the wolves rolled over and over upon the ice, and a third limped off after the remainder, who darted behind the ice-block again.

On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood

Goat-mother nervously; and they landed on an ice-block, covered up the boat again in its hiding place, and set off towards home, across the

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A yet more piteous whine from the bear showed his terror as the ice-block gave a sickening whirl, and crawling upon his stomach he crept close up to the little girl, his whole air saying as plainly as words could have spoken:

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