Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strange part about it is, that while these giant amoebae were the first of the species to be found about 1763, they have only been seen by four men since. The fourth man managed to make a culture of them so they can be used generally...
...difference: our friend made one mistake. He was above all practical. Ideals, hollow traditions and mock morals were not for him. With gentle, piercing strokes, he painted human nature as it was then and has always been. His writings have been a mirror in which men have seen themselves as they were, and the image has not pleased them...
Referring to the N. M. U. Manhattan offices, Joe Ryan declared: "I've seen half-a-dozen men come out of that Communist centre with bats." Senator Copeland asked what he meant by "bats." Joe Ryan: "I mean baseball bats for slugging." Then he added thoughtfully: "Possibly we were responsible for that because we first started using them." With perfect frankness Longshoreman Ryan admitted that his batmen had been paid with money furnished by the shipping companies to beat up Joe Curran's striking seamen...
Although they had never seen the costume before, Northwestern University's students did not need to look twice to identify the figure that stalked across their campus last week, wearing an enormous Chinese otter fur cap, a great Chinese otter coat and Chinese "alley cat" fur gloves. Only one man on any U. S. campus would dress like that. Exclaiming "Bill McGovern is back," Northwestern's delighted students rushed to register for his courses, its delighted professors whisked him off to the University Club to hear his newest adventures...
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus' gorilla Gargantua the Great, wrote Gargantuan Columnist Heywood Broun three weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin...