Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shakespeare's contemporaries carried on their persons, usually in rings, certain "stones" cut from the heads of big, old toads. Toad-stones "touching any part envenomed by the bite of a rat, wasp, spider or other venomous beast, ceases the pain and swelling thereof." This hermetic treatment seems to have had some value...
...Widow Kathleen McGrath of Dublin who won £25,000 in the Baltic Sweep, Clerk Butler of the Amalgamated Motors Ltd., Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity Sweepstakes (Army and Navy Veterans, Quebec, Unit...
...Edge. Four planes & crews were on the edges of the continents last week waiting, preparing to fly across the stormy Atlantic. One actually started and failed, perhaps only temporarily, when part way over...
...before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career Cornell University looked around and observed that giving honorary degrees was for the most part playing charades. Early in its career Cornell vowed: no more charades...
...study." There is an inaccurate tradition that Cornell is chiefly an agricultural college. Founders Cornell & White integrated the State-support idea with their own gifts so that today the New York State College of Agriculture, the State College of Home Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part of Cornell University. But only about one-fifth of the total enrolment are students at these colleges, where tuition is free to bona fide residents of the state of New York. The rest are in colleges of Arts & Sciences, Law. Engineering, Medicine, Architecture and a Graduate College...