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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Betty Jean was born on a desert mountain in Argentine. The past three years she has played in the dead crater of an African mountain, Mount Brukkaros, near Keetmanshoop, South West Africa. Living there was necessary, for her father's job, and Mr. Greeley's, was to measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where...
...high wall and adjoining the gardens of the learned community's Victorian moguls, is a monkey house. No uncouth student ever annoys the beasts for they are the wards of Robert Mearns Yerkes. He, who made a Harvard reputation studying the behavior of the dancing mouse,* has for the past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie...
Russian industrial production and Russian factory wages have been increased, Stalin declared, almost exactly according to schedule. Moreover, instead of the 21% increase in production which the Five Year Plan hopefully called for, the Soviet Union's industrial production actually increased 24% during the past twelvemonth. Only by failing to achieve notably reduced prices for manufactured goods of sustained quality did Soviet Russia fall behind her schedule...
...Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens, Contralto Bernice Mershon opened her mouth to emit Alan-a-Dale's part in an outdoor performance of Robin Hood. Past her gleaming teeth, into the warm, dark cavity of her throat, flew a bug. Contralto Mershon shuddered, swallowed, sang on. When she could get offstage she chewed a mint, gulped some medicine, gasped: ". . . the biggest sacrifice I ever made...
...government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...