Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director of the American Birth Control League, President of the International Neo-Malthusian League. In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics. He is Clarence Cook Little, President of the University of Michigan since 1925. One expects such a man to keep on doing the unexpected. Last week he did it again, announced plans for a new uni versity beside and besides the one he already...
...other regions although having quotas of 100 each, send no immigrants to the U. S.: French Cameroon, Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, Tanganyika, British Togoland, French Togoland, Nauru, New Guinea...
Colleges purchase small quantities of almost every known article. Harvard's list runs alphabetically from animals, alive and dead including cats, dogs, mice, rats, snakes, frogs, rabbits, guinea-pigs and monkeys--down through zincotype machines. It is not so easy here to show a saving through a purchasing department...
Chewing tobacco, ten-cent store vegetable knives and brass wire were the items carried by P. T. L. Putnam '25 in his recent trip to Dutch New Guinea; and intelligent use of this stock in trade enabled him to bring back to the Peabody Museum an interesting and valuable, collection of articles used by the natives...
Sporting England flocked to murky Liverpool, there to watch the greatest of steeplechases. By plane, motor, train, boat, cart they came and, despite fabled post-War depression, proved so numerous that luxurious Cunard liner Aurania, 14,000 tons, lying at her dock, became an ephemeral hostelry at a, guinea "and up" per bunk, thus saving many an onlooker from a damp night on the moors or pub floors. The morning brought black skies, torrential rains. Sporting Eng land, drenched, excited, gathered at the famed Aintree course; issued 150,000 prayers for better weather; surveyed the soggy turf and swollen streams...