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University Club and distributed some of my [[underlined in red]] sponges [[/underlined in red]] to the men of our table. [[underlined in red]] Bridges, Holden, Harden, Gibbs Hutchinson. [[/underlined in red]] Evening till late, Fifth Avenue filled with people [[underlined in red]] seeing the arches and decorations. [[/underlined in red]]
March 26. Early down town Directors meeting. Our [[underlined in red]] taxes [[/underlined in red]] for 1918 are [[underlined in red]] $290000 [[/underlined in red]] Lunch at Mouquin's then to University Club. Met at evening. Monsignor [[underlined in red]] Hebbelepiet, rector emeritus [[/underlined in red]] University Louvain and [[underlined in red]] Prof. Nerinex [[/underlined in red]] of Louvain. [[/underlined in red]] who have been in Belgium during all the time of the German occupation. [[underlined in red]] Nerinex [[/underlined in red]] tells me that German
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officers and German officials of every rank asked [[underlined in red]] bribes right [[/underlined in red]] and left, small and big and that [[underlined in red]] commercial or [[/underlined in red]] business men [[underlined in red]] could obtain almost everything by paying bribes [[/underlined in red]] for the [[underlined in red]] privilege. [[/underlined in red]] That this has now for harmful effect that some of the bribery which never existed except to a very small degree among Belgian officials [[underlined in red]] has now become a fixed habit [[/underlined in red]] with [[underlined in red]] some commercial men who are corrupting now underpaid Belgian [[/underlined in red]] officials.
Evening went to United Engineer Building meeting. "The Engineer as citizen."
March 27. Early this morning arrived home, spent all day sharpening up belated