Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mr. Bart J. Bok, of Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory in Groningen, Holland, has joined the Observatory staff for one year to carry out researches in spectrophotometry and stellar statistics. Dr. Leon Hufnagel, of Poland, has returned to the Harvard Observatory for a few months to continue his astrophysical researches. Dr. A. Pannekoek, director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam, visited the Harvard Observatory for a few days in October in the interest of his researches on the structure of the Milky...
Alfred I. DuPont caused a survey to be made of Delaware's aged poor so that the legislature might be persuaded to pension them. Last year, after a similar survey, the legislators were apathetic, Mr. DuPont gave the money himself...
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...
...Portland, Me., Willie L. Sanborn has for 17 years gone to a well on the grounds of Pennell Institute to obtain water for his boarders. Recently he was convicted of the larceny of ten quarts of water valued at one dollar. Sentence was suspended; Mr. Sanborn was put on two years' probation...
...Evanston, Ill., one Pauline Stasiak smashed her car into that of one Peter Pennacchia, backed away, drove off. Mr. Pennacchia left his wreck in the road, went to his garage and obtained his other car, drove around the corner and was again smashed into by Miss Stasiak...