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    A Scientist Rises
    A Scientist Rises
    A Scientist Rises
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    A Scientist Rises

    By Hans Waldemar Wessolowski and Desmond Winter Hall

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Scientist Rises - Hans Waldemar Wessolowski

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Scientist Rises, by Desmond Winter Hall

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      Title: A Scientist Rises

      Author: Desmond Winter Hall

      Illustrator: Hans Waldemar Wessolowski

      Release Date: December 9, 2008 [EBook #27464]

      Language: English

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      A Scientist Rises

      By D. W. Hall

      The face of the giant was indeed that of a god....

      All gazed, transfixed, at the vast form that

      towered above them.

      On that summer day the sky over New York was unflecked by clouds, and the air hung motionless, the waves of heat undisturbed. The city was a vast oven where even the sounds of the coiling traffic in its streets seemed heavy and weary under the press of heat that poured down from above. In Washington Square, the urchins of the neighborhood splashed in the fountain, and the usual midday assortment of mothers, tramps and out-of-works lounged listlessly on the hot park benches.

      As a bowl, the Square was filled by the torrid sun, and the trees and grass drooped like the people on its walks. In the surrounding city, men worked in sweltering offices and the streets rumbled with the never-ceasing tide of business—but Washington Square rested.

      And then a man walked out of one of the houses lining the square, and all this was changed.

      He came with a calm, steady stride

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