Word: herring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a 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...
...Herring, Instructor in Government, to complete a study concerning the relations between organized groups of voters and the Federal administration departments...
...Eaton's journey from the herring-savored village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to remote control of thousands of natives in Sumatra has been indeed a strange passage. Yet upon him it has left none of the travel marks that are found on most tycoons who have made similar trips from nowhere to the inner circle. He has none of the restlessness of a Ulysses, such as drove the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan from enterprise to enterprise. Nor has he the swagger of a Magellan, such as is found in Motormaker Chrysler...
Most prosperous of all Iceland institutions is the Icelandic Association for the Promotion of the Fishing Trade?one of the few instances of a successful national monopoly. Through this association all Icelandic fishermen present a united front to European buyers of cod and herring. Experience has shown that by this method they can demand and get higher prices than ever before. Jealously guarded are Iceland's lucrative fisheries. Day and night they are patrolled by the country's two icebreakers, the Thor and the Odin. Trespassing trawlers are hauled before a civil court, and up to the present time fines...
...Mallinckrodt MB 9 Fine Arts 2a Fogg Museum Fine Arts 5c New Fogg Small Lect. Rm. French 18 Emerson D French 30 Emerson D German 1c Emerson D German 4 Emerson D Government 1 Mr. Beard, B1, B2, B3 Memorial Hall Mr. Elsbree, E1, E2, E3 Harvard 5 Dr. Herring, H1, H2, H3, H4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Larkin, L1, L2, L3, L4 Mr. Maddox, M1, M2, M3, M4 Memorial Hall Mr. Putnam, P1, P2, P3 Harvard 6 Dr. Royse, R1, R2 Harvard 2 Mr. Shepard, S1, S2, S3, S4 New Lect. Hall Greek C 11 H Sever 35 Greek...