Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...
...long survival into the modern world, the leaves of the ginkgo changed until they are now almost invariably two-lobed and kidney-shaped. In the Cretaceous period, 100,000,000 years ago, the leaves almost invariably were wedge-shaped. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that Dr. Roland W. Brown had discovered, in a park near the White House, a ginkgo with leaves of this Cretaceous type. "It can hardly be looked upon otherwise," said the Smithsonian, "than as an atavism or throwback over a vast expanse of time...
...fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name. Only a sprinkling backed Lawrin, the hillbilly colt, even though...
HARVARD CORNELL Shean, 2b 2b, Johnson Johns, ss lf, Gannet Lupien, 1b ss, Polzer Grondahl, 3b p. Steunack Gannet, cf rf, Howe Soltz, lf 3b, Gally Hoye, rf lb, Lozier Bacon, c cf, Brown Ingalls, p c. White...
Little Jack Barr, who scored a hole-in-one a month ago, is the most consistent shooter on the squad. In his three position, Barr seldom varies from a 74 to a 76. At four is another slightly erratic player in Bob Sides. The latter lost his matches to Brown and Dartmouth...