Word: polis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming with Ovis Poli" was the baffling telegram received by the secretary of the class of 1912, in charge of the reunion of his class here on classday, next Wednesday, Further investigation revealed that the telegram was signed by Kermit Roosevelt '12, recently returned from a scientific expedition to Asia, and that his message referred to a rare sheep found in the uplands of the East, and which the son of the former President is presenting to the University...
...member of Theodore Roosevelt's recent Ovis poli hunting party...
...Callers at the White House included : Congressman Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, to discuss methods of keeping the government appropriations within the revenue in the coming year; Kermit Roosevelt to tell the President about Ovis poli and the Himalayas (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE); a delegation from the American Legion to urge that a military guard be placed over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to preserve it from desecration (the President asked them to take up the matter with the Secretary of War-it would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation...
Last week another merchant was stricken with natural history fever. His case was more virulent than those of Mr. James Simpson of Chicago and Mr. Walter P. Chrysler (TIME, March 8), who respectively financed but did not accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo...
...Capital than Hagerstown, Md. (TIME, Nov. 30). A most sensitive individual, M. Paderewski was revolted by the thought of charming dollars out of the pockets of statesmen whom he had known officially during his historic term as Prime Minister of Poland. Thus when Mrs. Coolidge entered her box at Poli's Theatre with Mmes. Dawes, Hoover, Longworth and Mr. John Coolidge, it was to hear him play for charity (American Legion Endowment Fund for Disabled Soldiers). Mrs. Dwight F. Davis had gone South, but gave her box to Princess Bibesco and Mmes. David A. Reed, Truxton Beale, Frederick Keep...