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Roger Williams wrote this little book as a letter of encouragement to his wife Mary. She had been sick during Williams' long absences (living "in the thickest of the naked Indians of America, in their very wild houses and by their barbarous fires") and on recovering, she was greatly worried about her spiritual state...
Three days later it backslid, ran the headline: HEARINGS STRESS ACHESON UBIQUITY. Professor White, 33, spotted "ubiquity" as one of the thickest fog words, made a bet with John Crider, the Herald's chief editorial writer, that few readers knew what it meant. To prove it, White stood in front of the Boston Public Library and polled 72 passersby. His findings: only 19.4% correctly thought that "ubiquity" meant "everywhere-at-the-same-time"; most thought (by association with the name "Acheson") that it referred to "errors...
...life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud was in uniform again, this time with the Army...
...rays had not told all. The one liver had to be divided where it was thickest, three inches in diameter. Worse yet, the anxious doctors found that the twins' chest cavities were connected and contained a single sac which held both their hearts. The hearts were abnormally long and crossed over, so that each beat partly in the other twin's body. When the hearts were separated, there was no room for them in the tiny, undeveloped chest cavities...
...hunt was to be princely in scale, continental in scope. It would start near the Mexican border in the spring of 1921 and continue right on up through the Rockies into Alaska, fanning out wherever the game ran thickest...