Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cows. Dr. Millikan's abstractions were the exception, not the rule. Other reports dealt with some of these practical benefits derived from pure science. Francis Howard Car of England, president of the society, reported experiments indicating that the stock-carrying capacity of pastures and consequently their output of meat or milk may be increased to an unexpectedly high level. One-half an acre of grass intensively treated with nitrates for the purpose suffices as a substitute for the usual two or three acres required to graze a cow or its equivalent for a season...
Attorney Serri, fuming, not a bit rueful, retaliated with a letter of complaint to Chief Justice William Howard Taft, copies of which were sent to Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Wrote Mr. Serri: "By indirection, with almost unspeakable vulgarity . . . [Judge Atwell] practically approved and incited the repetition by the officers of such conduct in this city. I doubt whether in all judicial annals there can be found such open incitement to public disorder and breach of the peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge...
...visiting politicos and friends -Senator Johnson of California and his manager, Charles L. Neumiller; Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation at the Hoover abode. The end of the week saw the Nominee headed north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile...
Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City. ¶President Coolidge commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of one Malcomb Howard, 35, Negro, convicted in Washington of murdering Jessie Nelson, girl friend, last winter...
...always wanted to sing serious roles, and I cannot tell you how happy I am. No, I am not married. ... All things are within the realm of possibility. . . . My father will come from his home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years ago. . . . My life reads just like the lives of Mary Lewis and Grace Moore. I do not cook. I am not an outdoor girl. Doesn't that sound banal...