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...even in high official quarters, [is] the destruction of "the paper cities of Japan," by aerial bombing. In plain words, this means that we propose to burn to death a countless number of women and children, the aged and the helpless. ... But Americans want no horrible holocausts endlessly to poison the relationships between our countries...
...highest awards that can be given to an American chemist, chairman of the award jury Professor William C. McTarish formally presented the medal, and further told Lamb that he was qualified for the honor on the basis of "interest in inorganic and physical chemistry, leadership against poison gas, and his ability as a teacher, administrator, and editor...
...mussels may be eaten, like oysters, during the "R" months. But while oysters are not harvested during the summer because they are propagating, summer mussels are not harvested because they are dangerous if they have been feeding on a variety of plankton (Gonyaulax catenella), which contains a powerful alkaloid poison. Diggers should pass up the long, purplish-yellow mussels, tough and poor-tasting, in favor of the slate-black, chunky variety...
Potatoes Collect Poison. When Retinger first went to Kent to visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...
Modernist poetry constitutes, in its entirety, a piecemeal bible of human guilt. In some of the bible's sections-T. S. Eliot's poems, for instance-human guilt appears as a world poison emanating from mankind's sins against God. Other modernist poets leave God, for all practical purposes, out of the picture. Human guilt, in their books, is simply the poisonous sum of people's transgressions against other people and against themselves. But whether the modernist poets speak as religionists or as non-religionists, they all seem to be trying to say that the world...