Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Curley picked up 2. while Raphael Demos, Assistant Professor on Philosophy, was the choice of 3. Two of Vincent Astor's close friends in Eliot House roted for the owner of the Nourmahal, and Upton Sinclair, Thomas Jefferson, Herbert Roover, and Wintergreen each tallied...
...fears that his big canneries will surfer. He sends his blasé lawyer. Jim Blake (Henry Wilcoxon), to lobby against the bill, mean while dallies with Blake's wife (Evelyn Brent). Blake quashes the bill, goes fishing in a small town where he meets Charlotte Brown (Betty Furness), owner of a small cannery whose bankruptcy is also bankrupting the town. Suddenly seeing how wrong he has been and how tired he is of his wife, Blake goes home pondering...
...rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that he had in his hands one of the most important evolutionary finds since the discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape-man of Java. Geological evidence indicated that the skull, whose owner was christened Australopithecus, was 500,000 to 1,000,000 years...
After the War, in which he became a Major, Dr. March organized two dozen or so professional football teams into a loose organization which later crystallized into the National League. When a squabble with Laundryman George Marshall, owner of the Boston Redskins, put him out of the National League two years ago, Dr. March wrote a book called Pro Football, which stamps him as the leading U. S. authority on the subject. Last spring he promoted the idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable...
...Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career. He's as smart as they come, but a little bit shy. So I take him along with me to let him mix and get used to folks...