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Sirs: In your Nov. 5 issue I find, on p. 88, the adjective "persnickety." I have just bought, at no little cost to myself, Webster's New International, Second Edition, which is said to contain nearly 600,000 words. I find no such adjective as "persnickety." I do not mean to be pernickety, but have I been gypped...
Professor Barbour, a student primarily of reptiles and amphibians and their geographical distribution, had interests also in far wider fields. His triad of well-known books, "A Naturalist at Large," "That Vanishing Eden," and "A Naturalist in Cuba," the latter concluded in 1945, contain little of the dry matter of zoology, though omitting nothing that a good naturalist could gather. His recent "Naturalist in Cuba," selections from which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly, discussed not only the animal, insect, and plant life of the region, but its geology, history, sociology, its people and their food as well...
...kill bees if they are confined in cages which contain plants sprayed with DDT. But that is no news to beekeepers, who have always had trouble with arsenic sprays. Dr. Wigglesworth steps delicately around the whole bee problem with an observation: ". . . beekeepers are a vociferous race. Like the bees they care for, their more lovable qualities may become obscure when they are roused-and they do not take kindly...
...year started, Harry Truman had no idea that his Government was engaged in atomic research. At year's end President Truman was custodian of the bomb and its precarious secret, buffer against its terror, repository of whatever promise it might contain for a world which could use its secret in peace...
...blue baby is so-called because its lips and fingertips are constantly blue; its blood does not contain enough oxygen. A common cause is small or obstructed passages from the heart to the big pulmonary arteries that carry blood from heart to lungs. That is what Dr. Blalock thought he could...