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Finally I am indebted to Romilly's Western Pacific and New Zealand for a receipt for preparing human brains. The natives of New Zealand were accustomed to stew the brains in "Sak-Sak," a concoction of sago and cocoa. The dish was "pronounced delicious by white men who had partaken...
...writer, a recent subscriber to TIME, looks forward each week to the receipt of your periodical, primarily for the wide scope of news it disseminates, its brevity and accuracy. Imagine my surprise when reading your Aug. 30 issue I found a mistake in nomenclature quite prevalent among our country's press, that is, terming tornadoes, cyclones...
...Fourteen nations have not yet acknowledged receipt of the State Department's communication. (Great Britain, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Hungary, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg...
Five million dollars is a handsome and unusual gift for a university to receive. Five million dollars' worth of rare books is unique. The southern (Los Angeles) branch of the University of California acknowledged receipt of such a gift from William Andrews Clark Jr. The collection was made by his late father, the onetime U. S. Senator from Montana, and is housed in the son's Los Angeles residence?a Dryden collection of 882 volumes; Shakespeare in 12 folios and 42 quartos; 1,000 pieces of Oscar Wildeiana; rare editions of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Dickens, Restoration authors; a collection...
...Resolved, that arrangements be made by the officers of the E. I. N. A. with the Federation for the receipt of the reports of the Michigan Conference of the Federation to be held next December...