Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which wear their smellers conveniently on their antennae outside their bodies. They put oil of cloves vapor (attractive to cockroaches) behind a gas-tight window of material transparent to infrared. The cockroaches responded to it just about as strongly as if the barrier were not there. When a thin sheet of glass (opaque to infrared) was added to the barrier, the cockroaches showed no more interest in the window than when there was no oil of cloves behind...
Government newspapers continued to attack the U.S. and its press, but spring fever obviously afflicted the editorial writers. La Epoca referred to "the New York newspaper, the Washington Post"; another sheet, with an equally fine disregard of the facts, damned the United Press, "whose figureheads called Roy, Scripp and Howard, also direct the New York Post, the Nation, and the New York Journal-American...
...This necessitated a poll. It was ready in five long weeks and promptly voted by a fourteen-man session of the Council. Hoping to get everything just right when speed was the important factor, the committee launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet, the Council tossed in two more questions, looked at the poll and heaved it into the waste paper basket. Two more weeks of unhappy revisions followed and now a third poll dealing exclusively with bread, pie, and wheat cereals lies on the chopping block. A grand total of seven weeks...
...Balance Sheet. Two reports, issued the same day last week, show how fast guerrilla destruction is outracing U.S. reconstruction. One was a program report from AMAG (American Mission to Aid Greece). The other was a report from the Greek III Army Corps, tabulating guerrilla destruction during October in its area in northwestern Greece (roughly one-third of guerrilla-infested territory in Greece...
When present leader Charles H. Vivian 5G posted a sheet in the Dunster lobby last fall asking for residents interested in a House Choir, several vocally minded Funsters penned their signatures, and the new chanting society was conceived...