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...frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring a letter home from a soldier, he recorded that the man had written: "A lot of ships were needed to bring the British Army to France. Only...
...that NSA does very good work, and that Harvard should belong to it. Why then did I vote to leave? Not, as has been represented, because I think Harvard is different--for better or worse, not bcause Harvard can't afford it (though NSA would take at minimum one-fourth of what we received at registration), and not because the Student Council wants to set up a rival organization...
...Danes stood their ground. Their Atomic Energy Commission, which includes Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, Denmark's grand old man of nuclear physics, had bluntly warned its government that should the Skate have a serious accident in the Copenhagen harbor, dangerous radioactive materials might be released. "If only one-fourth of the radioactivity aboard got out," said one physicist darkly, "all human beings within a mile around would perish." Suddenly Premier Hansen did not stand alone: it turned out that the British had also had qualms about the recent visit of the Nautilus. Sure enough, when asked, Her Majesty...
...Czechoslovakia), began experimenting with peas in the monastery garden. Mendel found that the parent plants transmitted their characteristics to their descendants in a predictable, mathematical way. When purebred red-flowered peas, for instance, are crossed with white-flowered ones, all the seeds grow into plants with red flowers. But when these red hybrid plants are crossed with each other, one-fourth of their offspring bear white flowers...
...Blue eyes in humans are also commonly due to a single recessive gene. Dark-eyed people may have this gene in its suppressed state, obtaining it from an ancestor so remote that his blue eyes have been forgotten. When two such people marry, one-fourth of their children (statistically) will have blue eyes...