Word: nestor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Zarya Vostoka, the largest building at Sukhum on the Black Sea, the State Theatre, is now the scene of a propa ganda trial of 47 accused which is filling columns in all Caucasian newsorgans. According to the State prosecutor, President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from...
Died. Sir Dinsha Edulji Wacha. 91, "Nestor" of Indian politics and economics who, by helping found the Indian National Congress 51 years ago, gave natives their first chance for political self-expression; in Bombay...
Other yarns: Oscar Cowlie found that he could milk his cows quicker if he took his. radio to the barn, tuned in on fast tempo music; Charles Nestor noticed the backs of his sheep were getting bare, investigation showed that swallows had picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
Kirkpatrick Scholarships: Robert L. Angenblick 1L, of Newark, N. J.; William H. Ernst 1L, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Nestor S. Foley 1L, of Somerville, Mass.; George Gore 1L, of Rapid City, S. D.; Howard L. Hausman 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Samuel L. Kobre 1L, of Newark, N. J.; Milton P. Kroll 1L, of Paterson, N. J.; Bertram H. Loewenberg 1L, of Roxbury, Mass.; Donald L. McCaskey 1L, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Frank J. Meistrell 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William L. Owen 1L, of Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Alexander G. Sanderson, Jr. 1L, of Texarkana, Ark.; Sidney D. Spear...
Today, with a perspicacity which will be surprising only to those unacquainted with Senator Long, he stands forth even more as a great American Nestor. Reposing in a sumptuous room in the new and brilliant Waldorf-Astoria, Senator Long pointed out that "the trouble with Washington is its remoteness from civilization--I never saw a place in my life that was so far away from the American people". But Huey Lond is no mere doctrinaire; he can treat the most practical problems with resource and agility. The case of the Waldorf sandwich is a case in point. With...