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...birds. They protested loudly when the men came near, refused to get off their nests until the men were close enough to snap pictures (see cut). The nests, about a foot across, were of grass lined with soiled white down. There were four creamy white eggs in the average clutch. The men took two goose specimens and five eggs, started back down the river. Last week the specimens and eggs were safe at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa, and it was announced to the world that the breeding ground of Ross's goose, sought for more than...
...Mersa Matruh, the outpost to which they had decided to retire, with tip & run tactics, whenever the drive from Libya materialized. To south and east, the Italians had already wiped out French Djibouti and British Somaliland, so as to clear the rear. This gave the Italians a strong clutch on the Red Sea's mouth and western coast. In order further to dominate that sea, through which British supplies and reinforcements were still running last week, the Italians were preparing to hop on to Britain's Perim Island, in the narrow Straits of Bab el Mandeb...
Oldsmobile's line is the widest in its 43-year history, includes wheel bases from 119 to 125 inches, engines from 100 to no h.p., prices from $852 to $1,575. A little more streamlined, new models look much like the '40s. Hydra-Matic drive (no clutch) is optional on all models...
...them! They have lost their heads. They have eaten of the insane-root. You will live long enough to prove this, for a quarter of a century from now on we shall know about this war what we now know about the last war. We are in the clutch of imperialism--and the professors have been fooled again...
...patient. For a week he prowled in search of one. One evening, in a Russian cafe, he noticed a man playing Otchi Tchornyia on the guitar. "Not only his face muscles, but his whole body writhed," said Dr. de Savitsch, "and I saw him make a frantic clutch at the seat of his pants. I could hardly wait for the music to stop. With little effort I persuaded the man to let me examine him ... in the washroom. It was as fine a case of strangulated hemorrhoids as any intern in surgery could wish, and I rushed...