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...Sinners in the hands of an angry God!" he trumpeted to them; and behold, the mosquitoes vanished. Edwards soon followed, but Princeton survived, to spawn F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jimmy Stewart upon the troubled seas of the 20th century...
...globe it owns more than 5,000 buildings (139 in Washington alone) and more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, worth about $2 billion. Its records would fill six buildings the size of the Pentagon. Overlapping and duplication of effort abound. Example: a Columbia River salmon, swimming upstream to spawn, comes under the jurisdiction of twelve different federal agencies concerned with fish and wildlife...
...heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered in the moon. . . . Wherever the structures raised by the ordered life of man began to crumble, his brood sprang up like mushroom spawn...
...Oosten hopes that this cycle can be interrupted somehow. One scheme: electrically charged barriers across the mouths of streams where lampreys spawn. This scheme may keep the eggs from hatching properly. Another plan: to shock the buried larvae by electrodes thrust into their mud beds. Dr. Van Oosten (and Lake fishermen) hope that Congress will not economize on a $20,000 appropriation promised for these experiments...
...gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony and laid...