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...Library, at 7.30 o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, November 12. At that time undergraduates will be admitted who have secured invitations in advance at the Library. This is the first time in the history of the Morris Gray talks that undergraduates have been invited in large numbers. Hither-to the meetings have been limited to a small group, due to the lack of a suitable room in the Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERNARD FAY TO SPEAK TO SMALL GROUP AT DUNSTER | 11/4/1930 | See Source »

Last year Albert Moore Reese, zoologist at West Virginia State University, stopped thinking so much about alligators, on which he is an authority, and turned his attention to owls. His interest began when citizens of Morgantown, W. Va. complained about being attacked by owls. Dr. Reese inquired hither & yon, asked people who had had owl encounters to tell him all about their experiences. From all over the U. S. came letters. Last fortnight he published some of his data in Science (weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ferocious Owls | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...jingles and converted them into Prohibition propaganda. But the old order changeth and Progress is an exemplary ambition. Perhaps Mother Goose willingly aids and abets the Noble Experiment. Forsaking her eternal kingdom she will be seen in the night air stealthily aeroplaning--of course her broomstick is antiquated--hither and yon disseminating the evils of drink. Yes, the Eighteenth Amendment is an honorable thing and even Mother Goose should garner a Cause for her dotage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWAN SONG | 10/23/1930 | See Source »

...importance to his people. They showed their feelings last week by a frenzied all-night demonstration of relief and joy. Rumania, like the Biblical father of the prodigal son, seemed to say: "This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. . . . Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Carol's Crown | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...well as celebrated birds are concerned with poultry shows. Among the 800 exhibitors were Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago who showed a pen of Buff Orpingtons valued at $100,000. Three Havemeyer brothers, of whom one, T. A. Havemeyer, was president of the Show, took prizes hither and yon. William Fairfield Whiting, paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass., who came to fame by succeeding Herbert Hoover for a while as Secretary of Commerce (September 1928 to March 1929), dropped in. Harry F. Allen, brother to Governor Frank Allen of Massachusetts, took prizes with his Silver King pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Certain Poultry | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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