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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norway, in 1918, has received considerable attention in the U. S., both within and without the Weather Bureau since that time. It was used in forecasting for a model airway in California a decade ago by the U. S. Weather Bureau and Guggenheim Foundation, and has been employed a dozen years by the U. S. Navy. Thus although this method of forecasting has only recently been brought largely to the public notice, it was well known to meteorologists and used in this country long before 1932, the year in which you say it was started here...
...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
...makes the rounds of poorhouses, reformatories, public hospitals, asylums and jails. Each year he selects 30 to 40 specimens for 472 medical students of Stanford and the University of California. Cost of transportation, preservation and storage averages $10 a cadaver. San Francisco's anonymous cadaver collector gets a dozen offers a year from people who want to donate their bodies, many more from those who want to sell. He accepts none...
...melon is cut each year by the National Academy of Design. With its annual exhibition recently limited to just over 500 paintings, prints, drawings and pieces of sculpture, it has three medals and 15 prizes totaling $4,375 to distribute, not to speak of the dozen or so new memberships conferred on promising exhibitors who consider it a cachet to write A. N. A. after their names. Last week this melon was cut and on a crowded varnishing day the 112th exhibition of the National Academy of Design opened...
...their characteristics, we might be referring to the "Lowell Bells", and the "Eliot Court". The best, however, he believed, would be the "Dunster Chimneys". Those chimneys that create our skylne have a greater significance than most people notice. They mean fire-places. There are less than half a dozen rooms in the House without fire-places, despite the never falling central heating system, and about them on long winter evenings the flow of good ale is mixed with the flow of equally good conversation...