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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marietta, Ga. was visited by a plague of martins. The city council ordered $50 worth of owls (several dozen) in crates from Florida. By mistake they were sent to Marietta, Ohio. By the time they finally arrived in Marietta, Ga., the martins had migrated south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Birds | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...gardens, white marble fountains. The name Yaddo was a baby pronunciation given by the Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate is a three-story Gothic mansion, whose vast rooms are carpeted with costly Persian rugs, lined with books and paintings, filled with bric-a-brac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yaddo and Substance | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Beginning the 303rd season of Harvard, these men, with an average age of just 18, will step into Memorial Hall, sign their names a dozen times, and step out holding in their hands four years of future Harvard history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1005 Freshmen to Enter September 23d As Harvard's 303d Season Begins With Smallest First Class in Several Years | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

King Edward VIII's abdication was approved in a dozen Calypso songs, one (by The Gorilla) voicing a comfortable Calypso philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Calypso Boom | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

With dark-haired, spectacled Joseph Cadden, 25, leader of the U. S. National Student Federation when he was at Brown, and now a Providence newspaperman, as chairman, youth ran its own show in grownup style. From a big pressroom a dozen telegraph tickers sent correspondents' reports to the world press. At plenary sessions delegates had earphones (such as the League of Nations uses) through which they heard English, French or Spanish translations of speeches. Highlight: India's Yusuf Meherally shrilling: "181 years of British rule have reduced India to appalling poverty, mass illiteracy, malnutrition and disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth Congress | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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