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Harvard bills should be paid by the 26th (if we've received then). Letters from Midshipmen Tweedy and Borth-wick this week were interesting. See Wachs and "Breck" for a look; it's worth while...
Wickard's Blessing. This year Victory gardens have the Agriculture Department's blessing: Secretary Claude Wick-ard wants 12,000,000 in cities, 6,000,000 more on farms. The Department has arranged for production of a special Victory Garden Fertilizer (three parts nitrogen, eight parts phosphorus, seven parts pot-ash*) and is ready with all kinds of free advice and pamphlets. Seed companies have keyed their advertising to Agriculture's campaign. From almost any catalogue, neophyte gardeners can choose a victory garden combination ($1 and up) with full instructions how, when and where to plant...
Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
...things with differences merely in form, can be achieved only by those who reach ecstasy. 3) For each ladder of thought there is a corresponding series of duties. "In order to learn archery one should first aim at a banana tree, then at a reed, then at a wick, and last at a flying bird...
Among the several models which are included with the pictures and diagrams is one of the entire Pick wick Landing Dam and one of the great cranes which was used to install turbine at Hiwassee...