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Militarily, such a machine, though cumbersome, should work (in Korea, 17 nations are welded together without too much trouble). The big obstacle lies in deciding how and by whom this new army should be financed and equipped, a problem which is sure to bog down in wrangling assemblies, difficult currency barriers and widely variant tax systems...
...been raining heavily for a day and a half and the field was as muddy as peat bog. Princetonians and their dates eagerly awaited the change in weather that had been forecast. It changed all right--it snowed...
...Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia Park, the two young-old lotus plants are still thriving. But until they are due to bloom, in about five years, Dr. Harding will not know just what sort of lotus grew in the Manchurian peat bog 1,000 years...
...Japanese found that sending a military column through the densely populated Chinese countryside was a different proposition from sending one against an enemy in an unpopulated terrain. The chief result of this feature of the Chinese countryside is the tendency for invading spearheads to bog down, lose their communications and fight a war of rapier against haystack...
...rich Celtic twilight of William Butler Yeats and J. M. Synge has long since faded, but their disciples are still lighting little peat fires on the general bog of contemporary Irish literature. The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim...