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...Nationalist lines again at Kaiyuan on the Mukden perimeter. They have been on the road five or six days. They have slept in their rags, sometimes on boards in wayside inns, more often on unsheltered ground, blessing themselves that it is not the icy Manchurian winter. They have eaten the food they brought along-mostly wheaten cakes...
...most recent is Everyday Miracle (Harper; $2.75), published last week. Dr. Eckstein's books have a peculiar flavor. The professor is no mere animal lover. He feeds his canaries lemon pie, provides little ladders for mice, and is sad when a favorite cockroach named He-Who-Leaps is eaten (he fears) by a favorite mouse named Patsy. But when he writes about them and their peculiarities, he is generally pointing out in a graceful way some mystery of life...
...manned by a French officer and two Belgians, equipped for the voyage with a very old bicycle, two tins of crackers, and "six demijohns of wine." In the main, French soldiers, naturally chary of seawater, refused to wade out to the boats (one officer even signaled: "I have just eaten and am therefore unable to enter the water...
...said Sacha, "we haven't eaten...
...experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...