Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I have often wondered whether Miscellany is intended to be taken seriously and whether these believe-it-or-nots are verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug...
First result was a belittled report that price control by decree was near (see p. 64), As President and as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Franklin Roosevelt indeed had at hand a host of latent powers, all the broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem...
On September 3 last, Ambassador Kennedy ordered his No. 2 Personal Secretary James Seymour to form a small staff for regular night duty. Seymour bought a collapsible cot (by day it is folded up behind the Ambassador's black sofa) and took the first "lobster trick." He had no...
"Some German bombers appeared to have fallen into the Vistula.
When Robert Clive reached Madras one nightfall in 1744 after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai." Its warring kinglets misruled some 90 distinct peoples whose languages were Babel. Its climate was hotter than its curry. Its diseases were "consumptions, fluxes, fevers, cholera, scurvy, berbers...