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...Greeted 53,258 Washingtonians, including some damp, tear-streaked children, at the annual Easter egg-rolling lawn party, where the usual percentage still held: 1 to 1.3 mothers to each child...
...tank commander, was in the turret and not at the steering levers when the tank was running, he had to impart this intimate information to a succession of new drivers. But he could never quite believe that anybody else could ever get to know his tank.¶ A cold, damp wind swept Fort Benning when Sergeant Pullen's tank rumbled into line with the rest of Company D and the 68th Armored Regiment. Company D was well back in the regimental column. The Old Man, with the visiting generals and civilians around him near the reviewing tower...
...story book world we live in, if we just know where to find the stories. Harvard has had its Copey and Kitty and Irving Babbitt, its arch-patriotic presidents and its bad butter. Given time our section men, still damp behind the cars, will grow beards, and be venerable and beloved; but why wait so long? One of the best stories is to be had now, west end of the Indoor Athletic Building, Fencing Room...
Even more modern omens were lacking : no bands of feverish citizens swarmed around newsstands to buy papers whose damp headlines hourly leaped higher and blacker; the radio was dull with soap operas and swing versions of Old Black Joe. On the surface, there was little tension...
...still a big worm operator. Earthworms are hermaphrodites; all healthy adults lay eggs by the score, and Oliver gathers them by the million, from layers of damp burlap in his culture beds. Packed in damp peat moss, they can be shipped any distance. Thirty days after being unpacked and put in the soil, the eggs hatch; 90 days later they become adults laying eggs of their own. Earthworms make a wonderfully nourishing and relatively cheap food for poultry, hatchery fish, market frogs, terrapin. Everybody knows that chickens like worms. Dr. Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry...