Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ward's sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which are bigger than U. S. snails and therefore better for anatomical instruction. Rattlesnakes from Texas sometimes arrive alive, are slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years...
...Year's Day 1934, underdog Columbia played Stanford in Pasadena's Rose Bowl. Score was Columbia 7, Stanford 0. Last week, hunting revenge, a Stanford team that had tied University of Washington went to New York City to play a Columbia team beaten by Army, Michigan, Dartmouth. Score, on George Furey's runback of the opening kickoff, was again Columbia 7, Stanford...
Before Maine's blight five years ago most trees went to Chicago from the East. Now more than half of them go from Montana and Washington, with a sprinkling of what Chicago Christmas tree merchants call "garbage" from the cut-over land of Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...
...Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami, Fla. were onetime Democratic Presidential Nominee James Middleton Cox, Massachusetts' Democratic Governor James Michael Curley, Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, Michigan's Democratic Governor-Elect Frank Murphy, Democratic Treasurer of the U. S. William Alexander Julian, Democratic White House Secretaries Stephen Early & Marvin Mclntyre, Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson and Republican also-ran Colonel William Franklin ("Frank") Knox...
...stringency of California guest statutes is paralleled by 16 other states: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming. With some variations, these all restrict liability to cases of negligence, drunkenness or intent on the host's part. In other states there is no statutory restriction of a driver's liability to his guests. Kentucky's constitution forbids any such statute...