Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the rise and fall of the Trilobites is made more poignant when it is considered that in Cambrian time they were the most intelligent and promising. Probably insects arose from the earliest Trilobites. I mention this to relieve the gloom of the rise and fall of this group of animals...
...cities. Typical, too, was the comparative apathy of the victims -employers and employes-and the police. But in the office of the Kansas City Journal-Post, a body of evidence was accumulating. The Journal-Post has the doleful distinction of having been the first U. S. paper to mention the availability of Alfred Mossman Landon as a Presidential candidate. Six weeks ago, the Journal-Post finally completed its pipeline into the racketeering sewer, gushed forth the story. It gave evidence of unpunished vandalism; it revealed that some business associations had paid for protection against union organization as well as vandalism...
...other hand the Biology department at Harvard is one of the best. It is better off financially than most, there are many outside institutions, such as the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, the Botanical Museum, and the Harvard Forest, to mention only a few, connected with the department of Biology. The Biological Laboratory has excellent facilities, and there is an adequate library devoted to the department. Lastly the Faculty is large and brilliant...
...where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor, who has been accused of killing a citizen named Robert Moore. "My clients," said Lawyer Dawson, "include gentlemen of substance...
...speculated on their possibilities, wrote a book about them, dreamed of gigantic orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem, which demands a tremendous orchestra and a large chorus, not to mention four brass bands distributed in the four corners of the concert hall. In the Requiem's orchestra are 16 kettledrums played by ten players. When Composer Berlioz' Requiem was first performed, one man in the audience fainted, and critics pronounced it the biggest noise ever heard in Paris...