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interest and his whole attitude [[red underlined]] suddenly changed.  Saunders [[/red underlined]] afterwards told me he ^[[insert]] [[Addicks?]] [[/insert]] had been offered a salary of [[red underlined]] $10000 if he were willing to continue this job so as to compensate him for his loss in his practice but he [[/red underlined]] wanted a [[red underlined]] guarantee [[/red underlined]] and other [[red underlined]] impossible conditions. [[/red underlined]]  This is the [[red underlined]] first instance of the kind which happened on our board. [[/red underlined]]
 Afternoon after meeting went with [[red underlined]] Whitney [[/red  underlined]] to meet [[red underlined]] Hale [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] Milliken [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] Bogert [[/red underlined]] to talk about [[red underlined]] optical glass situation [[/red underlined]] they assure me [[red underlined]] that everything is straightened [[strikethrough]] up [[/strikethrough]] out now and that there will be no further [[/red underlined]] trouble. I [[red underlined]] feel considerably relieved but still have some doubts.  Intend to write to Brashear. [[/red underlined]]
 Left with 12 [[underlined]] 40 [[/underlined]] AM. train for New York.
May 27. [[underlined]] Sunday. [[/underlined]] Car at station.  [[red underlined]] Nina [[/red underlined]] back home.  Her school [[red underlined]] has finished. [[/red underlined]]

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[[red underlined]] I feel very tired. [[/red underlined]] Spent most of day [[red underlined]] sleeping. [[/red underlined]]  Cold wintry day.  Whole month of May has been thus cold and gloomy.  Bad for the crops with which we must help the Allies
May 28. Cleared up belated letters.
May 29. [[red underlined]] Jean Dubois [[/red underlined]] came here this afternoon to ask me whether I could not help [[red underlined]] his son [[/red underlined]] who enlisted as volunteer in [[red underlined]] naval reserve to [[/red underlined]] get a job more in accordance with his abilities.  [[red underlined]] Another one who enlisted in a hurry and now finds that if he had waited a little would have had better chance to [[/red underlined]] find in what branch he best can work to advantage.
To night at University Club we gave a dinner. [[red underlined]] Pupin [[/red underlined]] presiding to the French [[red underlined]] Scientific [[/red underlined]] Commission of the [[red underlined]] French War office [[/red underlined]] who comes here to discuss with us various scientific and engineering matters relative