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moderately hot.
This has been a very trying day to me. [[red underlined]] I feel inexpressably sad.  This war is wearing me. [[/red underlined]]
June 19. [[red underlined]] George [[/red underlined]] went to Navy Yard to meet [[red underlined]] Commander Miller [[/red underlined]] and obtain further information about [[red underlined]] service in the Navy. [[/red underlined]] I went to New York and met [[red underlined]] Pupin [[/red underlined]] at University Club We went together for supper at Brevoort Hotel. [[red underlined]] I feel again better mentally this talk with Pupin has driven away my gloom of yesterday. [[/red underlined]]
June 20.  [[red underlined]] Another day of gloomy mood.  Life hardly worth living [[/red underlined]]
June 21.  Left Yonkers after lunch. [[red underlined]] George [[/red underlined]] drove me to the station.  In New York quite some commotion on account of [[red underlined]] arrival of Italian Commission Italian flags all along Fifth [[/red underlined]] Ave. Went to see Washington Players then left for [[red underlined]] Washington [[/red underlined]] with

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night train.
June 22. [[red underlined]] Dr. Hale [[/red underlined]] shows me letter from [[red underlined]] Pittsburgh Plate Glass [[/red underlined]] Co announcing their intention to withdraw from further attempts at [[red underlined]] making optical [[red underlined]] glass. [[red underlined]] Bogert [[/red underlined]] to whom I told our troubles [[red underlined]] seems glad to see that the [[red underlined]] optical glass committee [[/red underlined]] does not seem to advance any better than [[red underlined]] his own work [[/red underlined]].  He tells me has has been criticized and they had told him [[red underlined]] "Take an example at us how we get along with the optical glass question."  [[/red underlined]] Evidently some friction there.
  Evening meeting with [[red underlined]] Hudson [[Maxiem?]] [[/red underlined]] on Committee of [[red underlined]] Ordnance and Explosives. [[/red underlined]] 
June 23. Further meeting with [[red underlined]] Millikan [[/red underlined]] who has been away and just got acquainted with new troubles in the [[red underlined]] optical glass situation. [[/red underlined]] Advised him to wire to Pittsburgh to find out when he can meet Raymond of Pittsburgh Plate
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