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...Quincy Street is the Union, which now houses the graduate dining hall, as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets for football games and other contests are obtained. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...
From deep in the central U.S. a puckish zephyr danced northward, trailing an unseasonable perfume of spring across the central and maritime provinces. Dandelions bloomed in Hamilton. Three tulips popped up outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...
...Navy, which he accused of giving him insufficient information. ¶ A report by the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox, made soon after the disaster, was also made public. It contained the story of another sorry failure: after the attack, Army radar operators watched the Japanese planes scooting northward to their carriers; the Navy received this information two days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers of testimony was a memorandum from ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, written shortly before Pearl Harbor, recommending that Japan be bought off. Morgenthau was willing to lend Japan...
...officers and men, plus some hand-picked observers from other nations, would start out from Churchill, Manitoba, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth (see map), "Operation Musk-Ox" would arrive at Edmonton. The only breaks in 81 days of isolation would be the visits...
...millions, in transverse migrations, Germans struggled westward out of New Poland, northward out of the Sudetenland and Austria, to swell a nation already overpopulated and reduced in size; while Russians struggled eastward, some out of slavery and some out of voluntary servitude, towards home and an uncertain welcome...