Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Morley "essay" is a peculiar literary form, neither fish, flesh, nor, fowl. It combines a bit of Chesterton with a good deal of Winchell, and now and then a touch of Mencken or Edgar Guest, to make a distinctive type of chatty writing. As a rule, his sketches are neither very amusing nor very dull. His most recent collection. "Internal Revenue", follows the norm, save that less of it is amusing and more of it is dull...
...real estate, at a total profit of $361,445. To this was added $362,923 from salary, dividends, rents and interest, making a net income of $724,368. TA corporate body which controls all canals, waterworks, sewage and drainage systems in Cook County. Neither fish nor fowl, it is responsible to no other local government, raises its own money by taxation. Authority is vested in nine trustees...
...fuselage. Each plane, with a crew of two pilots, a radioman & mechanic, is equipped with a pneumatic lifeboat. Each man has a sort of light diving suit in which he can live for half an hour under water. Taboo as provisions are liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen fowl is a jinx...
...president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs for violation of the Federal law forbidding the importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Ernie Byfield to the Customs House: ''Let me assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat, is not a wild bird. On the contrary, it is the most solemn member of the avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring...