Word: dakotan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...during each monthly cycle. So, ordinarily only one ovum can be fertilized. Ovaries may or may not alternate in ovulation. Occasionally two ova are expelled at the same time or very close together and, if both are fertilized, twins result. According to this possibility, four years ago a South Dakotan claimed that he was father of only one of his wife's twins, and a judge agreed with him. Said Dr. Bundesen last week: "Since the twins are unlike and one is smaller than the other, there is a possibility that they may have two fathers. But the fathers...
...sell airplanes to Russia. Even then, Chairman Nye, one of the Senate's smartest hands at investigation publicity, loudly deplored the disclosure as "an attempt to smear the President" and as "not designed for any honest and constructive purpose." Nevertheless, the same public that had watched this North Dakotan "smear" the President's enemies now had a glimpse at the way a President's son may plan to make some quick money...
...State Cordell Hull became the Acting President of the U. S. under the Act of Succession of 1886.* If solemn Secretary Hull had not already realized the gravity of his trust, he must have done so upon receiving a telegram from Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, as that North Dakotan sailed away with other Congressional junketeers to the Philippines (see col. 1), concluding: "I wish you every success and great strength in these trying hours upon your office...
...constitutional requirement a North Dakotan must have lived five consecutive years in the State to be eligible for the Governorship. Husky, mop-haired "Tom" Moodie is an oldtime itinerant newshawk whose restless feet have carried him through newspaper shops from Cleveland to San Francisco to New Orleans. For ten years he has lived chiefly in North Dakota, the last four as editor of his own paper at Williston. But in 1930 the urge to move took him to Minneapolis for a time. When North Dakota Republicans discovered that he had voted that year in Minnesota, they secured an injunction which...
...back-country Illinois farm in 1867. Working his way through Nebraska University's medical school, he graduated at 36, started practice in South Dakota's Black Hills where he often had to ride 150 mi. in a buggy to reach his patients. Like many a frost-bitten South Dakotan he moved, aged 52, to California. There, after a spell as assistant city health officer in Long Beach, he turned again to private practice. A kindly doctor, he brooded over his experience of human misery, and conceived a Plan...