Word: duals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DAFFODIL AFFAIR - Michael Innes - Dodd, Mead ($2). For those who like sinister Chestertonian foolery, a completely fantastic and delightful story of the kidnapping of a young English girl with a dual personality, the theft of a learned horse ("Daffodil") and the disappearance of a Bloomsbury mansion. Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard travels from England .to the jungles of South America for the amazing solution...
...Cairo, a transport plane set down Wendell Willkie after the first 11,000-mile lap of his trip to Russia and China* as a dual representative of Franklin Roosevelt and America's loyal opposition. His wardrobe was a tourist's sun helmet and a rumpled, dark blue business suit with a torn pocket. Said the voice from the Midwest to the people of the Mideast: "I've come for a definite purpose. As a member of the party in opposition to the President, I want to say that there is no division in America on the question...
...next best thing to a dual intercollegiate track meet will be in store for the track team on Sunday when 23 members of the squad participate in the New England Championships of the A.A.U. at Stone Park, Dedham. This will be the last scheduled event of the summer for the hard-working Mikkolamen and has served as a focal point throughout the whole season...
Bodyguard of the University during air raids and blackouts, the Harvard Company of the Cambridge Auxiliary Police fulfills a dual purpose. As one of Cambridge's ten or so companies, the Harvard unit aids in preserving law and order in case of aerial attack, but besides this, it is assigned to the special mission of guarding the College property...
...insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...