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March 19. Here all day dictating Electricians [[red underline]] pulling up wires for lighting my house. [[/red underline]] Evening drove to St. Regis with Celine to take Hecht and his son to Martin for supper 
Then drove to Lusitania which leaves [[strikethrouth]] th [[/strikethrough]] after midnight. [[red underline]] Hecht [[/red underline]] seems cheerful and satisfied. Saw [[red underline]] Alfred Williams [[/red underline]] and wife off. 
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Took Schell and [[red underline]] Wagener of Chicago to Chemists Club Then Celine and I drove home about midnight. Cheerful evening.
March 20. Stayed home all
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day dictating. Pleasant spring day.
March 21. It snowed again. We got an unexpected knock on the head in our patent situation by the publication of [[red underline]] Aylsworth Hexamethylene patent. [[/red underline]] The case thereof is so much the less comprehensible because the examiner by this time ought to know the prior disclosures of Knoll's Belgian patent. Went to office at noon. [[red underlined]] May [[/red underline]] is back now. He showed me his new pamphlet for Lacquer.
[[strikethrough]] March 22 [[/strikethrough]] Home until 6 [[underlined superscript]] 15 [[/underlined superscript]] P.M
March 22. Awakened at midnight then unable to sleep for many hours.
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