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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twice had the absorbing experience (once on the Pacific and once on the Atlantic) of standing on the beach and seeing that certain big black fin cut the water out where, but a few minutes before, I myself had been swimming, I'd like very much to know the preferred procedure when the third-time-that-charms comes along. I have heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head...
...many years-nine, to my personal knowledge-the United River Plate Telephone Co., Argentine operating associate company of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., has maintained a staff of cats on its payroll in Buenos Aires. I don't know just how many there now are, but there are 36 telephone exchanges in Buenos Aires, and there are a few feline employes around the Stores Department...
About all that many people know about Kurds is contained in the lines of Hilaire Belloc...
...Atlantic City hotel and restaurant owners, Republican Senator Charles E. Loizeaux rushed through a last-minute measure to extend the exemptions. Last fortnight somebody discovered that the law read, "canneries . . ., glass manufacturing establishments and hotel restaurants." It should have read "hotels and (or) restaurants." "I don't know just how it happened," said Senator Loizeaux. "It was the last day and the last bill and I didn't . . . check up on the wording." Hundreds of waitresses, entertainers, hat-check girls and employes in other than hotel restaurants would have been more worried about their jobs except that...
Professor Viehoever is as interesting as Daphnia. He is a terror to his family, who never know what noisome creature or substance he may pull from his pockets. The U. S. entered the War a few weeks before he, a German, could become naturalized. Nevertheless, he continued to work for the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. Back in Washington, he composed The Doughboys March, which the U. S. Army band at Fort Washington, Md., near where he has a farm and summer home, still plays. Professor Viehoever's laboratory, where a pet white kitten...