Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon he boarded the Houston, which bore him away at 18 knots across a rainswept sea. Four hours later he landed in St. Thomas, V. I., was met by Governor Paul Pearson, carried up into the town to be greeted by cheering crowds. Kindly Governor Pearson and his goodhearted lady dined that evening with the President aboard the Houston, watched from its deck a procession of illuminated floats serenading the President, celebrating the Island's industries and beauty...
...only proprietor he could question confessed deception when Dr. Yerkes told him he was a scientist. What goes on in the jungle Dr. Yerkes does not claim to know. But when a wild female ape is seen carrying two babies there is no assurance, says he, that she bore either of them. Though born somewhat prematurely. Mona's twins were last week approaching their first birthday normal and hale as any chimp youngsters...
Stout-hearted Mme Elzire Dionne, with eleven offspring, holds no record for prolificness. One recorded woman produced 59 children in 27 labors (twins, triplets, quadruplets). Another bore 30 children in 22 years by her first husband, 14 in three years by her second husband (triplets, quintuplets and sextuplets). Noteworthy was Dr. Mary Austin, Civil War nurse, one of whose sisters bore 41 children, another 26. Dr. Austin herself bore 13 twins, 6 triplets-total...
Fable probably is Ambroise Pare's report of an Italian woman who bore nine children at one birth, eleven at another...
...Journalism, but put the presidential sceptre in the hands of a Hartley henchman named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...