Word: sheep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is a devout pastor to do when he can no longer inspire his flock? What can he say when the President of the U. S. comes to worship at his church, attracts curious thousands, and the sheep listen not to his sermon...
Since no other champion of Abyssinia against Britain and Italy can be imagined, the possibility that the League can or will adjudicate the rights of Abyssinia seemed dwindling to a remote infinitesimal. Subsequently both the British and Italian Governments made sheep's eyes, despatched letters to the League Secretariat declaring that their mutual agreement "cannot," according to the British letter, "detract from the rights of the Abyssinian Government which may take such decision as it may think fit or limit the possible action of third parties...
...Sheep. Impoverished at home, France is more and more turning her hopeful attention to the North African empire carved and welded for her by Marshal Lyautey. Africa was a central theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME...
...Inness Jr. died last week in Cragsmoor, N. Y. He was a competent minor painter with a talent for controversial subjects. Born in Paris in 1854, he studied in Rome and Paris, was given a gold medal by the Salon of 1900, sold a bucolic canvas called Shepherd and Sheep to the Metropolitan. He signed his work "Inness Jr." Last year one of his pictures, The Only Hope, an elaborate cartoon of the world's return to Christ, set the New York Chamber of Commerce simmering. Chamberman Irving T. Bush wanted to send the picture on tour...
Theodore, the eldest, 39, and now resuming business affairs* after sundry candidacies and appointments in politics. Last spring he found some Marco Polo sheep (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE). Last week he was assigned, as colonel, to a 15-day training period at Plattsburg...