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...German cockroach, blattella germanica, which are colored greenish-gold and grow to be an inch long, is the most common breed in Harvard dining halls, says Alpert. Darker roaches like the periplaneta americana and Oriental blatta orientalis are found outside kitchens in places that includes student rooms, he adds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Common Cockroach | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...Despite the name, the German cockroach, Blatella germanica, is probably mostfamiliar to U.S. city dwellers as a kitchen nemesis. The American roach is often found where food is stored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sexy Strategy | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Frightened by the stages of revolt gathering strength throughout all the occupied countries of Europe, Germany last week discarded its theme of "Pax Germanica" for a policy of "implacable terror." In Yugoslavia, against General Draja Mihailovich's isolated and loosely organized ''army of freedom," the Nazis struck with a fury born of frustration and fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE BALKANS: Somewhere, Somehow | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...union will not include the parliament of man and the federation of the world. "The ambitious Caesars of the totalitarian states, almost alone among contemporary rulers, have faced the problem of unifying the world and have acted to achieve a solution." Ugly as it is, Schuman thinks "the Pax Germanica beckons the majority of men," since it offers a solution more tolerable than the anarchy of Europe's last two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variations by Schuman | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Some of the books which Dean Sperry discusses, such as Theologia Germanica or Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, are not very familiar to those outside the Church. Consequently, while Strangers and Pilgrims was meant primarily to be a book of criticism, it will serve many lay readers as an excellent introduction to these masterpieces. Delving into a primary source in Christian theology is no easy matter for the lay reader. Language, terminology, unfamiliar dogma, all conspire to hide the author's purpose. Yet with the scholarly background which Dean Sperry has provided for each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

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