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...twenty years, until the general-utility hall was cut up into six rooms, with two floors, and a staircase on the outside of the building. For a time, these rooms were used for undergraduate recitations, but the building was soon deserted again because several of the rooms were so damp that when a coat of varnish was put on them it refused to dry. But on the top floor were stored the specimens used in Dr. Warren's class in anatomy, and various other biological exhibits in the form of a museum. Few student rooms around the Yard were...
...garden house had "one inestimable advantage: it was private. . . ." In the damp and windy solitude of his gazebo he could meditate in peace. And visitors could come & go unnoticed. "For, as in Paris, so here before La Rochelle, the friar acted as chief of Richelieu's secret service." With Catholic secret agents and Huguenot traitors, in the flooded summerhouse, the friar would sit "into the small hours, listening to their reports and giving them instructions. Then, dismissing them with their wages, he would lie down to sleep. Before daybreak he was up again and on his knees...
...hours newsmen drove down convoy-jammed highways, slithered over muddy, narrow back roads. They slept in damp fields and sometimes were lucky to get two hours' sleep a night. For days they got no baths. They ate canned rations, or sometimes they did not eat for 24 hours at a time. In short they went through much the same thing as the troops...
...hunt." Habe's captain lost his head, ordered his men into a glade which was just right "for a solitary pair of lovers and not for two companies of infantry." Once the men were nicely crowded there, their heads buried in the damp, rich ground, the German artillery cut loose on them...
...damp, disused, musty wharf shed the 50 men stood and sat, impatient, griped, chilled: newsmen, cameramen, radiomen, technicians, bottleholders. They had been waiting a long time-two weeks at Swampscott, Mass., two days at Rockland, Me. They were angry as a bunch of bears with sore haunches. They were the reception committee for Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the greatest fishing trip that any President of the U.S. had ever undertaken...