Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ecrie is the world to described Warren House, in whose labyrinth of hallways, trap doors, secret stairways, and weirdly built rooms the heads of the English department make their workday nest...
...TIME, June 21, you have a short account of the African Kenya bird, locally called weaver bird [which builds its nest vertically instead of horizontally]. I enclose a photo of a tree full of weaver birds' nests. The photo was taken in Urundi...
...great advantage from distant open spaces. . . . Many hideous buildings make quite respectable ruins. From the rubble purple willow herb grows luxuriantly, and in one place I know of bracken is sprouting out of sandbags. . . . In Victoria Street a breed of ducklings has grown up comfortably from a nest in the rubble. Above all, for the first time in our lives, there is a sense of space and air in London, and these are the first essentials of all town planning...
...cuckoo's egg in TIME'S nest, if there ever was one-"she-Marines" [June...
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes sharpened his pencil, put down his findings in the American Magazine. His total: $12 trillion, $23 billion. Divided among 135,000,000 people, the sum would give each American man, woman & child a nest...