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A camphor tree, symbol of life, was joyfully planted, and doves were released from the high platform as a message from General Douglas MacArthur was read. He warned "all men of all races that the harnessing of nature's forces in furtherance of war's destructiveness will progress...
Best anti-lamprey measure would be to drum up commercial demand. Lampreys were once a popular delicacy: Henry I of England is reputed to have died from a surfeit of them. Dr. Van Oosten is checking a rumor that Italians in Bessemer, Pa. are lamprey enthusiasts. If a market can...
In this book, vigorous, witty Bergen Evans, youthful professor of English at Northwestern University, swoops down on many of the world's best-beloved caterpillars' nests. His aim is, of course, to exterminate them. Sample "vulgar errors": >Thunder sours milk (the sultry weather is really responsible).
Secondly, we should like to make the point that since the Student Council as a body lacks practically and vestige of authority and that its composition is a matter of supreme indifference to almost all of us, the unorganized and therefore unvocal majority, no amount of whooping it up for...
The failure of Asdic and radar was probably all to the good, for the trouble with whaling before the war was its success, which threatened to exterminate whales in every ocean. British experts believe that whaling's future depends on strict regulation, better knowledge of the whales' migration...