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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintained ministers at the Vatican between 1848 and 1867, when, with the end of the Papacy's temporal power in sight, the U. S. Congress ceased appropriating money for its legation. Relations were never formally broken...
...sight of a score of trophy-seekers heaving on the end of a hawser tied to the cross-bar reminded sportswriters of the recent attack on Princeton steel uprights. The determined Bulldogs refused to admit defeat; they produced a block and tackle which succeeded in at least leaving the impression that a frightfully strong wind had passed that...
...manslaughter. He was convicted of nothing, however, until 1911, when he returned from a world voyage on a leaky schooner. Six followers had died of scurvy, exposure or starvation. Tried for manslaughter, Sandford was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary, was released after six, then disappeared from public sight...
...week to the Philadelphia meeting of the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Association went Hitler's second choice: burly, brown-eyed Dr. Carl von Eicken, head of Berlin University's otolaryngology department. Dr. von Eicken, who said that the "greatest thrill" of his U. S. visit was a sight of the Statue of Liberty, spoke freely about his patient...
Only antelope in the world are found in Asia and Africa. But the fleet-footed North American pronghorns, tawny, wide-eyed little animals about the size of a calf, were called antelope on sight by the Adam-pioneers. Before those pioneers plowed under the grass of the Great Plains, ''antelope" herds roamed from Texas to Canada, from the Mississippi to the Cascades. Because of unrestricted killing, by 1911 the pronghorns, like the buffalo, were threatened with extinction. But pronghorn herds, now well protected, have staged a reproductive comeback: in Oregon alone, according to the State Game Commission, they...