Word: locally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hopes that the Harvard-Navy game would be broadcast over a Boston station were shattered last night when news came that no local station would carry the game. Both Columbia and National networks will run the encounter over a New York station, however...
This report followed closely after another from Dr. Link having to do with crown gall, a local infection of apple trees which superficially at least resembles cancer in animals. Crown gall and cancer are both proliferations of unhealthy cells. Botanists have long known that the gall is caused by a bacterium, Phytemonas tumefaciens. Dr. Link succeeded in inducing galls by application of heteroauxin, keeping the bacterium away from the scene of operation...
...Local people say the number of hawks that flew over Hawk Mountain decreased 75% in the past ten years. Hawk Mountain became a preserve in September 1934. In the years preceding, local farmers and hunters went with guns every fall to the top of Hawk Mountain and blazed away at the migrating hawks. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed every season. In 1934, peppery Mrs. Rosalie Edge, militant head of the New York Emergency Conservation Committee, secured an option on the two square miles of Hawk Mountain, scrabbled together $924.40 to pay the expenses of a keeper...
Photographer Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
...Local interest in debating has fallen off considerably in recent years. This year that interest may be expected to increase materially owing to the realistic approach which the Debating Council has made to its problems, and to two essentially simple reforms...