Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladies of San Diego, Calif., good and bad, will gaze sadly out to sea this week. From roofs overlooking San Diego Bay they will drape bedsheets and tablecloths to be seen by departing lovers, husbands, fathers. Down to the piers as in the past, they will go, the lean, the fat, the swans and the ugly ducklings to wave and weep good-by to the U. S. Fleet...
Gangsters, holocausts, thunder-gusts and earthquakes were all provided against by the architects of San Francisco's new U. S. Mint. They never thought of kids. One evening last week Paul Francis and William Gallagher, each 15, walked past the massive four-story money fortress and remembered having read it was "impregnable...
...Paul and William shinnied up a drainpipe to a window ledge. Windows were locked on the first story. Up they climbed to the second, crawled around the ledge until they found a window open. Past a guard (reading a newspaper), through attack-proof steel doors (ajar), into a room full of copper sheets (pennies in the raw), they tiptoed. One of them knocked a wrench clattering from a chair, but no guards came running. They took some copper clippings ($1.50 worth), tiptoed back to their window, threw the copper to the ground, departed as they had come...
Gathered from all parts of the world, more than 48,000 sheets of mounted plant specimens were added in the past year to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, making a total collection of 994,704, the greatest in America and the finest in the world in North and South America flora, Merritt L. Fernald, Director, and Fisher Professor of Natural History, said today in his annual report...
From all indications it appears that Greenwood will bring to the Indoor Athletic Building a rather weak team as it has in the past. Hailing from Gardner, Massachusetts, where the "Memorial" is a club of the Y. M. C. A. variety, the Greenwood boys will have the rely upon their nerve rather than their swimming ability to score many points against the Ulenmen...