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...Lord's Acre" has become an institution in the South, particularly in Georgia, because acres planted for God have produced more abundant crops and have been miraculously free from the boll weevil, potato bug, army worm and other enemies of God's people...
However, the Opposition were quick to find a bug in the healing ointment. There were certain modifications. Paragraph 7 stated that membership in the militia would be open to all Italian subjects between the ages of 17 and 50 who have the necessary "physical, moral and political" qualifications. Paragraph 11 stated, in part, that the militia "will be employed for those duties which he [presumably the King] will consider both in the Kingdom of Italy and in the colonies...
...Chesapeake 'Bug Eye' lay to leeward. I called to the man aboard to tell us where we were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over...
...rivers Bug and Muchowietz overflowed causing severe damage to life and property at Brest of Brest-Litovsk* fame, and Terespol. The inhabitants of both places were driven to the tops of tall buildings by the tremendous inundation...
...fraternities, which in the last 20 years have enjoyed a mushroom growth at Toronto, McGill, etc. Oxford and Cambridge afford no precedents for such silly, bourgeois performances, say the university men. In fact, the whole of Canadian university life, they say, is unpleasantly infected with the American extra-curriculum bug...