Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referred to "ready money" and a "principal" who had to be "satisfied," with "the real articles," promised to "follow your instructions" and insisted on a "C. O. D." transaction. On April 2 Dr. Condon delivered the ransom money to the kidnappers' agent with whom contact was first made at null Cemetery. Presumably he was then informed when and where the baby would be returned. When it was not, the following "Jafsie" advertisement appeared last week: "What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Better directions, please...
...police of Menlo Park ordered his oats examined. For three days, Government chemists analyzed samples of grass and leaves which Phar Lap might have nibbled. Then W. W. Vincent, chief of the Western District of the Food & Drug Administration, announced that tests on grass from a plot whence Trainer null had pulled green fodder for his charge showed .01 grains of arsenic per pound. The poison could have been blown into the plot of grass from nearby trees which were lately sprayed. The spray, in addition to the arsenic, contained arsenate of lead. But Dr. Karl Meyer of the University...
Author Van Vechten, when he was a child, used to collect birds' eggs, postage stamps, cigaret pictures, tobacco tags. Now he collects gaudy things of the mind, mostly reminiscences. Pieced together they make a kind of patchwork quilt, recalling. null strips of bright or sombre color, a bygone age. Neither very sacred nor very profane, they make good reading for belles-lettres' connoisseurs...
Only five of the 25 constitutional amendments proposed by Congress have failed of State ratification.* Unless three-fourths of the State Legislatures ratify this latest proposal within seven years, it will lapse, becoming null and void. Virginia's hasty ratification started a race among the States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George...
...means of a cloud chamber they are now able to see and photograph the stream of protons from their machine. The effect looks like a stubby shaving brush with bristles 1.6 in. long. Each bristle is the path made by a proton only one 10,000th of null millionth of an inch in diameter...