Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn
...Register this year has been unavoidably delayed by the destruction of all the type in a recent fire in the Van Dyke Printing Comany, New Haven publishers, who were at that time handling the publication of the Register. The subsequent handling of this year's edition has been done by a Boston firm...
...vein of Gaelic literature. Richness, sympathy, and mysticism are the chief marks of his lyric poetry, and appear also in his prose-drama on Irish tradition, "Deirdre". He is also a sympathetic and imaginative critic. Deeply interested in the social and political problems of Ireland, he has written and done much for his country in this connection. At one time he was the editor of The Irish Statesman...
...Britain, the party which will come into government at the next elections will be more inclined towards disarmament," Mr. Smith predicted. "But they should not trust naval experts to settle the question. The stupidest thing done at the Coolidge conference was the trust which was put in the naval experts. Quarrels on party; quarrels on guns, on cruisers,--why, what else is to be expected of naval experts anyway? The naval expert is paid to look after his navy. When he does not do that, he deserves the go-by. What does he know about limitation and reduction of armaments...
...lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength to fly the Atlantic. That this flock had done so, W. H. D. Witherby, British ornithologist, asserted in London last week. He had just received a small aluminum ring found in Newfoundland on the leg of one of those wearied lapwings. He himself had fastened the ring on the bird more than a year...