Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often and so casually observed in the Fleet by Officers and Men standing long watches at sea. ... Having watched them skimming away from the ship's prow on many occasions I had made conclusions one or two years ago which substantiated the deductions of both the University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, and Connecticut's Trinity College Geologist Edward Leffingwell Troxell...
While the President was thus expressing his faith in the Constitution its sesquicentennial was also observed by the University of Michigan Press by the publication of a hitherto unprinted autobiographical sketch and a letter by the figure in U. S. history who was one of the Constitution's most vigorous interpreters: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U. S. from 1801 to 1835. Written in 1827 to furnish data about his life to Associate Justice Joseph Story, who was reviewing Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years...
...reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have a child will drink water into which her husband has spat. "Spit an' image" is, in all probability, to be traced back to a mystical notion of this sort. LESLIE A. WHITE Dept. of Anthropology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Province which has more people, grows more food and manufactures more products than any other in Canada is fabulous Ontario-chiefly famed abroad for the Dionne Quintuplets. It is exactly 1,000 miles long by 1,050 miles wide-so big that the five States of New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota string the length of its southern border. Three years ago strapping, vigorous Ontario started taking the orders of a chubby, double-chinned, deep-dimpled, dynamic man she calls "Mitch." Two years ago he left her suddenly for Florida, announcing "I will retire from public life! There...
...zealous City of Chicago itself which, broke as usual, submitted a bill for not part but all of the $241,000, plus an extra $27,000 for good measure. This bill, Chicago's Corporation Counsel urbanely explained, was for 3,351,655,000 gal. of water from Lake Michigan which the city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid all equipment & pumping costs. But last week, grumbling of "holdups...