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Booby Traps, 1840
Carnivorous plants spread from South Carolina to Ceylon. There are about 450 species. Their methods of capturing their prey (ostensibly nothing larger than insects) are in some measure common to all. But Professor Lloyd breaks down their "trapping mechanisms" into six categories -pitfalls, lobster pots, snares, flypaper or birdlime traps...
In the green mountains of the Cirenaican hump sudden torrential rains slowed his progress, but he pushed on. At Bengasi invasion-wise Bedouins in flapping sheets now snapped the British thumbs-up. He reorganized at El Aghéila, where German engineers had sown the dead with booby traps. He...
The mud-splashed, helmeted students were picked officers and men from Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-Hoo") Lear's Second Army. For two weeks they had puffed, sweated and bled through a nerve-racking training course as much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They...
Six other trainees demonstrated how to avoid and neutralize booby traps left by the enemy. Carefully they carried out a mop-up raid on "Führerville," which the engineers had contrived from old lumber. Two of them imitated weary soldiers trying to find a place to rest, did all...