Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With plans to attend the Fourth Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress at Batavia, Java, and to carry on extensive research work along the northwest coast of Australia, a region never before inspected by a marine zoologist, Professor H. L. Clark of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology yesterday announced the itinerary of a trip on which he departs March 15 and which will keep him away from the University for a period of almost a year...
...Professor Clark will stop at Batavia, Java, to act as an official delegate from Harvard to the Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress, a meeting of some 200 representatives from countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of discussing all sorts of medical and agricultural, as well as purely scientific, problems pertinent to the region. This is the fourth of such conferences; it is held under the auspices of the Netherland Indies Science Council and under the patronage of the Dutch Government. Dr. W. L. Moss of the Harvard Medical School, will also represent the University...
...landed in Havana from British Honduras one evening last week in a Sikorsky amphibian, he eyed the thronging newsgatherers more moodily than ever. He knew their eagerness this time was not solicitude for his safety. He knew that they were not going to ask him about the new Pan-American air mail route he had been inaugurating.* He knew,.alas, that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence of what is called "Human Interest." It did seem to him that when a man, even a Hero, is going to get married, that he might...
...Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...
...French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...