Word: nationa
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...other books. Born in Natick, Mass, in 1873, he was taken to California in 1877, entered Stanford at the age of 21, with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals for the New York Zoological Park, U. S. Nationa Zoological Park, been field collector for the British Museum, U. S. Biological Sur vey, National Museum, traveled in Italy Mexico and France, becoming "the second American to trap in Europe." An early photographer of wild animals, he has pursued them throughout the West especially in the deserts, gathering material for cowboy...
Cartoonist Robert L. Ripley's nationa "Believe It or Not" contest was won by Brooklyn's Clinton W. Blume with a proved story of losing an initialed scrubbing brush in 1918 near the coast of France, finding it a year later in the surf at Manhattan Beach where he was a life guard...
...Substitute for departments or ministries of war, navy and aviation a singel department or ministry of nationa fense. There is no longer room for the word 'war' in the permanent organization of any government signatory to the Pact of Paris, or giving its adherence thereto...