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...black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east as Japan, as far south as Morocco, that no black-headed gull had ever...
...York City, Robert Fulton Cutting, aristocratic Board President of Cooper Union, said that "some sort of an unemployment dole" should be handed out to unassimilable unskilled job-seekers who each winter flock to Manhattan...
...nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once spoke for herself with no one to hear it but the sea: "Stranger, near this spot lies Chrysis, daughter of Arches of Andros: the ewe that has strayed from the flock lives many years in one day and dies at a great age when the sun sets...
...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...
...seen bowling over trees, bathing themselves, and at the climax closing in, a hundred strong, on a trio of tigers. For the first time India's rare and ugly one-horned rhinocereses are shown on the screen. Other animal principals are water-buffalo, swamp-deer, wild pigs, and a flock of vultures...