Word: novae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idea of making two sheep grow where only one grew before first occurred to Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), who spent the last 30 years of his life and some $250,000 on the project. In 1886, summering with his family in Nova Scotia, Bell bought an ewe for his children to play with. When they returned next season, there were two sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty...
...Nova Scotia sea captain, George Cutten was a reporter, appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation...
...history of fisticuffs from the reign of James Figg (1719-34), first English champion, Historian Fleischer has dug up the records of some 1,500 of the world's prizefighters, the measurements of 32 famed heavyweights, the odds on every heavyweight championship bout from Sullivan-Corbett to Louis-Nova, a detailed explanation of the financial deal on the Johnson-Jeffries fight, and many another fist fact. Samples...
...Nova Scotia-born, law-trained Minister of Finance James Lorimer Ilsley it was no surprise that on Sept. i clothing prices had crept up 17%, food prices 24% above pre-war levels. (U.S. rises 7% and 18% in the same period.) Minister Ilsley and his special board of consulting economists had an eye out for just such inflationary storm warnings, had a storm cellar ready. This month they laid their economic plans before Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his full Cabinet...
...Louis on the cover before his fight with Nova. I heard someone talking on the radio, with tears in his voice, about the terrible hoodoo that had descended on this fine, clean fighter. And what happens ? As if nothing in the world was bothering him, Joe steps out and knocks Nova twitching...