Word: munches
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Geography usually means a big bookful of maps and statistics behind which crafty schoolboys munch apples. But last week Ohio State University's Geographer Roderick Peattie, elder brother of rhapsodic Botanist Donald Culross Peattie (A Prairie Grove, Audubon's America, etc.), explained geography to grownups. Geography in Human Destiny presents geography as the study of fact-relationships, not of facts. Says Author Peattie: "What it is, is a correlation between sciences. ... If one must classify it, call it a philosophy." Geography, Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems...
...tactlessly equates geography with conservation, conservation with socialism. "If progress is to be made, each compromise must, in the nature of things, be nearer the social left." From geology to ideology, Peattie's small book is absorbing enough so that readers will wish it were big enough to munch an apple behind...
...hundreds of miles around, pilgrims travel to the shores of Hang-chow's West Lake proudly to urinate upon the iron statue of a historic traitor named Chin Kuei. In honor of China's newest traitor, Wang Ching-wei, Chinese coolies call the fat-fried crullers they munch for breakfast yu cha-wei (i.e., "May Wei boil in oil in hell!"). Last week a new honor was bestowed on Traitor Wang. Chinese in Chungking started a chain letter respectfully dedicated to him. Each recipient of the letter was asked to kick back one dollar and pass copies...
...that they supplant these red-clothed creatures of the flesh by a corps of cunuchs to steal silently up to the doors of the rooms, leave the tray, and then vanish when the scholars of Kirkland House weary from wrestling alone with knowledge and culture . . . and come out to munch on a little Veal Saute or Beef a la Dutch. William N. Parker...
Divorced. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, after 23 years of marriage; by Anna Margaret Munch Nye; in a five-minute court proceeding; in Fargo, N. D. He is the second member of the present Senate to be divorced while in office. The first: Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi...