Word: pumpkins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johns Hopkins, long famous in scientific circles for his studies of how living things grow, has here produced a book which is intelligible to the layman yet includes enough scientific and mathematical data to be significant to scientists. He describes briefly experiments which show that a white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow in the same way as the populations of countries according to their census counts. That is, the rate...
...order that American traditions may be preserved and that the customs of our forefathers may endure, we have placed pie upon our breakfast menu-apple, mince and pumpkin...
...size are to be razed, and among them those which mark the sites of first houses, Indian massacres, and colonial gin-mills. The beneficent oil company, which for several years has conspired with farmers and sign-painters to initiate passers-by into the historic past of Hicks Corners and Pumpkin Village is to be thwarted. The murderous motorist will no longer be reminded that Elljah Stockbridge was shot here by Indians, and joy-riders, pleasure bent, will forget that in this village Deacon Whosis was placed in the stocks for kissing his wife on Sunday. The whole restraining force...
...Massey who is also taking the part of an Austrian Ambassador who figures largely in the action of the play. He is now acting as coach for the Dramatic-Club. As an undergraduate he was secretary of the club in 1914, and a member of the cast of "Peter Pumpkin Eater", the first Dramatic Club production to be played in New York...
This is not the first time that Harvard Dramatic Club has gone to New York City. In 1914 they gave two performances of "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" at the Garrick Theatre during the Christmas vacation...