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With lips as red as a sugar beet With arms as white as a 'Muda onion, I'll follow her until my feet Are naught but corns and flaming bunions...
...retooled by Army pedagogues and writers. Teacher-value is got into the books by simplifying language, adding helpful illustrations, frequent summaries, true & false tests. A physics self-teacher tells how to study gas diffusion without a laboratory: if a piece of cheese is boxed with a slice of raw onion for an hour or so, one bite of the cheese will show that gas gets around...
...emergency calls-a sugar grower needs a shipment of live frogs from Argentina to eat insects menacing the sugar crop; a silk concern wants a shipment of silkworm eggs from Turkey. He turned down a request to ship perfume essence, worth $1,500 a Ib. But when the U.S. onion crop turned out poorly, 61,600 pounds of onion seeds were flown in from Argentina...
...some 100,000,000 Orthodox Christians (there are comparatively few dissenters in Russia), had bridged the crevasses that for 25 years Bolsheviks have tried to open between Russian believers and nonbelievers. Once more the peasant trudging in from the land and catching the sunlight flash on the gilt onion "domes of Moscow's remaining churches could utter the traditional invocation with the traditional tenderness...
...holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson; 4 to 5, French lesson; 5 to 6, another voice lesson. At 6 Patrice is entitled to dinner. Her favorite dish: pickled herring with an onion on an apple...