Word: pigeons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen miles off Pigeon Point, Cal., the San Juan, 2,000 tons, 47 years old, had been rammed by the Standard Oil tanker 5. C. T. Dodd. Of no passengers and crew, only 42 were saved. Next day grim men sat in the U. S. Steamboat Inspector's office at San Francisco. All agreed that: 1) There was dense fog. 2) The Dodd rammed the San Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew...
...past few days will be completed today according to information received from official sources yesterday. No reason could be ascertained from the college authorities for the unusual action of the clock in the past few days; but upon inquiry it was discovered that the unwieldy flight of a vagrant pigeon had disturbed the movement that has been continual for a decade or less. Workmen perched high upon the dangerous scaffold spent several hours in the effort to repair the damage caused by the misdirected ramblings of the winged wanderer...
...more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds but considerable carnage of the glassware in windows and street-lights. Others with what the Irish call a gift of gab have been...
...than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never the lack of it. Records of grades and activities should only supplement opinions formed by personal contact...
...three years the City Hall has seen Mayor Walker, seldom before the pigeon-splashed city clock has marked noon. Since the day Governor Smith singled him out of the State Senate for Job No. 3, much water has gone under political bridges. But Mayor Walker, though he was once president of Silver King Water Co. ("A Good Mixer"), is not the kind to care where the water goes...