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...trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...
George Washington Crile, famed chief of the Cleveland Clinic, told the meeting that memory was an electrochemical process. Sense stimuli, he said, send electrical impulses through the nervous system. Reaching the brain these currents cause metal ions to be deposited in the pathway in some definite arrangement. Later, when the event which caused the initial stimulation is repeated, similar currents are dispatched which reactivate the original pathways, produce memory...
...Roving Reporter, sunk in reminiscent dreams, had all but decided that colleges, college men and college furniture were as they had always been, when he noticed three jovial students carrying an unfamiliar apparatus along the pathway under the shade of the time-hallowed elm trees...
...PATHWAY-Henry Williamson- Dutton ($2.50). After the War, William Maddison crept back to his native Devon, to the burrows, the sandhills, the rising and ebbing tides, to starry nights in winter, to summer nights of mad lightning and serene moonlight. At the Manor of Wildernesse he still found Mary, "grave and beautiful and innocent," who loved small birds and high winds as he did himself...
...always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape to the country now one must travel for thirty minutes in train or motor...