Word: birth
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...done at the request of the Public Library of Philadelphia, which has undertaken the task of compiling a list of all the incunabula in the United States, and the places where they may be found. This list is to figure in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg of Maing, the inventor of printing
...decrease in the American birth rate has been due to immigration. With greater possibilities for the native-born laborer, it will rise again, and we shall have the necessary increase in population from our own people. Our powers of assimilation are on the decline. Our social and political evils are on the increase. It is sufficient that a way to remedy these evils has been shown...
...play represents the sudden awakening of a Harvard professor 2000 years in advance of his birth, and his futile efforts to regulate events in a fanciful country called Spontania, according to a history he has written. In his history he finds that the king is to marry on the following day, but can discover only the initials of the future queen. This leads to complications. Meanwhile, two neighboring old maids arrive with forged proposals of marriage and demand the king's hand. The professor also finds the king's son about to marry otherwise than his book prescribed, and tries...
...Perrie, who is coaching the weight men, is a Canadian by birth, and has put the shot in many games both here and in England. He holds a record of about 46 ft. for the shot, and has also been very successful in throwing the hammer...
SEND date of birth to Moore, Scientific Astrologer. Six months' horoscope, $1.172 6th avenue, New York...