Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William A. Miske, 29, St. Paul heavyweight pugilist, of acute Bright's disease, in Minneapolis. In 114 fights he was knocked out only once- by Jack Dempsey at Benton Harbor, Mich., in 1920. His last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness...
...little before six o'clock in the morning the S. S. President Harding steamed into Plymouth Harbor amid a downpour of rain which cloaked the fair hills of Devon in a pall of heavy mist...
...Kellogg received an enthusiastic civic welcome. The Mayor of Plymouth, who extended an official welcome to the new Ambassador and his wife on behalf of the citizens of Plymouth, reminded them of the historic tradition of association which the town had had with America. He said that the harbor had been the headquarters of the U. S. fleet during the War, and, in concluding his speech, he hoped that the happy relation between Great Britain and the U. S. which had long existed would be long maintained...
Glands. A case of complete reversal of sex in a full-grown animal was described by Dr. Oscar Riddle, of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. A female pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study...
...friends the American people:" "The revenue belongs to us by every right known to God and man. We must stop the money from going to Peking to buy arms to kill us, just as your forefathers stopped taxation going to the English coffers by throwing English tea into Boston Harbor. Has the country of Washington and Lincoln foresworn its faith in freedom and turned from liberator to oppress Ask the officers and men of the American warships to ponder this before they shoot...