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...successful man, Rommel is vain, arrogant and autocratic, for when he makes war nowadays he takes all the responsibility, all the blame, all the glory. When things go awry in battle, he flies into volcanic rages that produce results. He showers everyone around him with a stream of vituperation, usually beginning with "Schweinehunde...
...they cannot even feed themselves, must be crammed by workers. Their fantastic defense mechanism is designed solely for use against their chief enemy, ants. The soldiers' enlarged heads (see cut, p. 38) contain glands which produce a viscous chemical. Some times it is squirted forth in a gooey stream which entangles the attackers, and some times confuses and repels them by its odor...
...insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...
There was dire need for the risks they ran, and for the trickle of supplies that was slowly becoming a tiny but continuous stream. China was desperate for all they could carry, and for the combat planes and ground crews that other pilots were ferrying over northern Burma. The Chinese still had 50 miles of railroad in east China, which denied the Japanese the use of the line between Shanghai and the south. But the Jap had taken the last of three fine airfields prepared by the Chinese in Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces against the day when the Americans would...
Widener retained its position as a library through the efforts of a steady but small stream of students who came to read and not to sign up. They seemed to succeed despite the interference of the war and the yellow-clad nurses who helped with the registering...