Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I hear about LOUIS AUDET, C. R. RITT, H. S. SMITH and that Chap, ROBINSON all getting married this month I wish that you would hurry up and get here because I am getting the bug, too....You asked me about some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether...
...been little affected by the war. Most of the food they need (hay, grain, green vegetables, horse meat) is unrationed. To replace scarce bananas they now serve a sweet potato; instead of Japanese ants, favorite food of many a zoo bird, they dish out a dried New Mexican water bug. Almost no animals have been imported in two years; zoos breed their own, and swap surplus stock. Lions are almost free for the asking...
...Detroit bug-eyed businessmen heard a Lafayette Escadrille veteran, Gill Robb Wilson, now National Aeronautic Association president, say that their city would "have a pretty good chance" to become a great international air-transport center after the war. Already, said Captain Wilson, the bulk of U.S. planes taking...
...ethnologically just "Curzon Line" drawn at the peace conference, swept into Russia's easternmost provinces and incorporated them by the treaty of Riga in 1921. It is this Treaty which Stalin denounced after Sikorski's rejection of the Polish Soviet Treaty of 1939, which reestablished the border at the Bug River...
...probable that Sikorski, a realistic soldier could be swayed to accept the Bug River line, which is ethnologically sound, militarily feasible, and politically sane, together with the friendship of Russia which he has helped create by numerous mutually useful pacts and agreements. The danger is that the power of the ultra-conservative Polish nobility will make Sikorski an inarticulate puppet when the time comes to face Stalin, who feels about Russia's western approaches much the same as Secretary Knox feels about our Pacific approaches, as the keystones of security...