Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reading room at high noon: teen-agers hunched in corners, muttering over dog-eared textbooks or stacks of index cards. The prevailing sense of humor was as old as the Roman hills: bantering buttons with such slogans as DA MI OSCULUM LATINE LOQUOR (Kiss me, I speak Latin) and ATLAS IS TOO STONED TO CARE...
...with the digs next door, but Amy Carter calls her new tree house home. Situated in a secluded thicket on the south lawn of the White House, the 4-ft. by 5-ft. platform is raised on wooden stilts and can be reached by shinnying up a sturdy old Atlas cedar. Amy introduced her 20-month-old nephew Jason, son of Jack and Judy Carter, to her leafy perch last week, and even her dad, says the First Child, "climbed up here once." The architect of the project is the President, who remembers well his own childhood tree house...
...foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following the war, Howe continued as a broadcaster, taught journalism, helped found and edit Atlas magazine...
...ATLAS OF EARLY...
...million have been identified and named (there are, for example, more than 300,000 species of beetles alone). Insects range in size from those no larger than a dust particle, and a species of hairy winged beetle that can crawl through the eye of a needle, to the Atlas moth of India, which has a 12-in. wingspan, almost as large as an oriole's. Brian Hocking of Canada's University of Alberta gives an estimate in his book Six-Legged Science that the insect population of the world is at least...