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When spring comes, increased ultraviolet light invigorates the body; fresh food brings added minerals and vitamins, and the individual picks up. The result is a jerky, uphill climb to summer's expansive wellbeing. Spring fever, says Dr. Petersen, is the irregular cycle of alternating days of elation and fatigue, until the body has regained its pink of condition...
...lowest division of the lowest form) for three times as long as any boy in the school. It took him three tries to nudge his way into Sandhurst. At 24, an Army lieutenant, he applied for Oxford, gave up when the examiner demanded a schoolboy's Greek irregular verbs from a British regular officer...
...right place. Experts say that most corn varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated ear and regular rows characteristic...
...supplies (some sent by UNRRA, some purchased by foreign governments) to ravaged countries. At least twelve million tons of grain, nine million tons of coal must reach Europe from the Americas before July. Needy countries will call for other foods, clothing, fuels, building supplies and machinery. Long port delays, irregular schedules, return trips in ballast, diversions to out-of-the-way points, make this type of carrying unpopular with private shipowners, eager to get back to lucrative regular runs. It will be a job largely for the nations with "surplus" ships-more ships than they need to carry their...
Speaking to a group of students representing all the undergraduate organizations a few weeks ago, Dean Buck said, "Gentlemen, I envy you. We have just come through an irregular war period. We are in a period of transition, and we are finding that irregular too. Harvard will not be comfortable next term as it used to be, but all of you will be working with the finest bunch of men the College has ever seen. As I say, I envy...