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...Orthodox Jewish rabbis. For ten hours these bearded men of God prayed and pondered. Before them was a question involving what is most dear and holy to pious Jews-kosher food. Long have the rabbis charged that in New York City's poultry markets much trefah (unclean) fowl is foisted upon Jews as kosher. A mediator appointed by Mayor LaGuardia recommended that plombes (lead seals) be attached to kosher fowl as they are to kosher meats; that a tax of iff per fowl be levied to defray costs of vigilant inspection. The city poulterers rejected the plan, called...
...bird observer and was one of the first sportsmen to recognize the possibilities of the Cape for duck shooting, doing much to popularize the sport around Boston. In his younger days he was well known for his painting of wild life and especially noted for his pictures of water fowl both of which have been on exhibition in many places in the last 30 years...
...week an itemized account of the number of youths he had "out to the house" for meals, a professor would be entitled to a reimbursement from the University to the amount of 50 cents a student. In other words, for every hungry Harvard youth that devoured a Brattle Street fowl, the University would assume damages to the extent of four bits...
...only highly significant for the present but also indicative of the future. They are lent additional strength by the fact that this would probably be the ideal solution of the Austrian problem from every point of view but the German. Dollfuss, who is now neither fish nor fowl and who consequently has no power over the elements which he called in to save him would be displaced; a moderate form of Fascism headed by a man of aristocratic antecedents would be more satisfactory to all groups in Austria than any of the bloody alternatives which face them; last, the government...
...word neutron and the name deuton. It is interesting indeed that American scientific workers do not have any such difficulty." Not every Briton favored the Rutherford suggestions. Wrote Henry Edward Armstrong, Ph. D., LL. D., D. Sc., F. R. S., retired chemistry professor, "Chemists cannot admit such fearsome wild fowl as diplogen...