Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week sympathizers with Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti thought they saw a rescue party starting out for an eleventh hour salvation of the two men who are scheduled to occupy the electric chair during the week of July...
Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, who last fornight had somewhat curtly replied to a request that he appoint a committee of investigation with the statement that the matter was his responsibility to be investigated as he saw fit, last week, suddenly, surprisingly, did appoint exactly the kind of committee which he had been asked to name...
...from the headwaters of the Roosevelt River ("River of Doubt"). Five weeks ago, Commander Dyott arrived in Manhattan with a photographic record which substantiates the late Theodore Roosevelt's charting of this 900-mile river, running from the Brazilian plateau into the Madeira River, tributary of the Amazon. He saw stone markers which had been left by the Roosevelt expedition...
Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...
...sharp-eyed gumshoer from Yale will slink into the Harvard and Dartmouth stands, watch the opponents every game and report to Jones on what they saw, according to a non-scouting agreement between Yale and the teams she will play next fall. Furthermore the Dartmouth Athletic Council, afire with zeal to reform the game, has sent out letters to Brown, Cornell and Harvard Universities, major opponents on next fall's schedule, proposing similar measures. A great deal of fuss has been made over this trival change and we are inclined to agree with the World that when such elaborate means...