Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next month Harold Compere, at the insistent demand of the citrus growers of southern California, sets out on an extended exploration of South America on an almost hopeless quest for such a heroine. Thus we search the Seven Seas. One lucky find, however, will pay for years of fruitless search...
This spring the Bureau of Entomology organized a Division of Foreign Parasite Introduction which will search Japan, France and Austria for parasitic enemies of insects that have invaded the U. S. from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
...Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings he has collected from various hiding places 14 Shavian pieces, dating as far back as 1885. Latest and largest item in the collection is The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (published separately in 1933). Shaworshipers who have grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under...
...debate the Stock Exchange Control Bill one day last week were startled to read in Washington papers the Declaration of Independence as an advertisement. They were even more startled to read: "This advertisement is paid for by Frazier Jelke & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange." But search as they might the Senators could find nowhere the customary tagline of all financial advertising: "The above information is derived from sources which we believe reliable but is not guaranteed." As all member firms must, Frazier Jelke had to submit Thomas Jefferson's text to the Stock Exchange...
...HISTORY OF EXPLORATION-Sir Percy Sykes-Macmillan ($7). Who first went exploring purely in search of knowledge is unknown. Merchant-explorers more than three millennia before Christ were the Sumerians, whose high civilization glimmered before history's dawn. Exploration was a by-product of trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book...