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Eveng went to University Club to hear [[underlined]] Walcott [[/underlined]] of Rockefeller Foundation give his experience of the [[underlined]] devastation in Poland. [[/underlined]] He first drew our sympathy for [[underlined]] Belgium [[/underlined]] but after he had given the picture of the houses and misery of [[underlined]] Poland [[/underlined]] it occurred to me [[underlined]] that Belgium even with the [[/underlined]] depth of her misery is a sort of pic-nic as compared to [[underlined]] stricken Poland [[/underlined where barbarious and cruelties of the Germans [[underlined]] have been carried out without intervention or opposition. [[inderlined]] [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] of [[strikethrough]] such [[/strikethrough]] neutral countries as has been the case in Belgium He called it the happenings in Poland the [[underlined]] greatest horror which ever caused since the beginning of the human race [[/underlined]] and I believe from what he
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told us that this statement is correct. [[underlined]] I felt ashamed to be a human being after listening to the plain and [[/underlined]] simple recital of what he had witnessed.
[[strikethrough]] Afterwards [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Horta [[/underlined]] was present and I introduced him to several of my friends.
Stayed at Chemists Club over night. 
Jan 13. Meeting of [[underlined]] Naval Consulting Board. [[underlined]] Frank Sprague is angry over fact that [[underlined]] Edison [[/underlined[[ our official report of [[underlined]] Laboratory [[/underlined]] as well as his had been submitted to Secretary of Navy Would have been tasteless enough of [[underlined]] submitting a supplementary [[/underlined]] private report, advising [[underlined]] against Annapolis [[/underlined]] and recommending again [[underlined]] Sandy Hook [[/underlined]] or any place near New York and advising that unless laboratory

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Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.