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how with him I got my first job which allowed me to become a resident of the U.S.  [[underlined]] Bancroft [[/underlined]] had been unusually nice, came specially from [[?]] to hear my paper and return same night.  Fine good thorough fellow.
Took 12:30 P.M train Met Celine and went home but could not fall asleep so I write these notes.
[[underlined]] George complains bitterly of ear-ache. [[/underlined]]  I had the same pains when his age.  Nina has
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a sore throat.  Gave her five cents to alleviate it but this does not work with George.  I felt as happy as a kid tonight.  I like to measure myself with my fellow chemists.  -- Yet I claim no other credit for my work than the fact [[underlined]] that I just happened to strike Bakelite from the proper point of view at the right age after the right experience and at a time when I had the modest but sufficient means [[/underlined]] to enable me to use the necessary leisure time to devote all my energies to it.  My whole surrounding
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