Word: inge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery of a white animal belong- ing to a species whose members are usually dark in color, calls forth a religious ceremony in savage countries, a news story in civilized countries. Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex- pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white...
...Henry Gundy of C. P. & P. loomed as logical Moses to lead the indus-try from its factional wilderness. Abitibi Power & Paper Co. and St. Lawrence Corp. would be possible allies of C. P. & P. in such a union. International Paper & Power Corp. might head another group; or-hav- ing lost the Hearstpaper business after 1933-might turn wholly to its major interest, Power, and pool its Canadian newsprint activities with other Canadian producers...
...prime New Irish wife costs five yards of shells. The wife may divorce by return ing the shells. "A man can have several wives and a woman may have several hus bands, but polygamy and polyandry can not both occur in the same family. On the other hand it is the accepted social custom that a woman may have lovers and a man mistresses...
Suddenly, however, Rumanian public opinion reasserted itself last week. In Transylvania and Bukovina peasant mobs sacked and burned Jewish homes in the countryside, then grew bolder, began loot- ing Jewish shops...
...been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold...