Word: soper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery of where the Blue Geese (Chen caerulescens) go in spring. From their winter quarters in the secluded swamp-lands of lower Louisiana the geese fly north so far and fast they literally disappear into the blue. But in 1929 a Canadian naturalist and explorer named Dr. Joseph Dewey Soper at last found a happy ending to his wild-goose chase. He traced the geese into the remote fastness of Baffin Island, deep in the Canadian Northeast, discovered their nesting place...
...zoology has been due to slender, rich-voiced Dr. Edward Loranus Rice, 67, who has instructed and delighted O. W. U. students for 40 years. Last week the board of trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after a ten-year incumbency was preceded by rumors of friction with alumni, will teach religious history next year at Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston...
Favorite cigar store of baseball-minded Detroiters in 1907 was Mel Soper's. Two of Mel's good customers were Walter Owen Briggs and John Kelsey, coming figures in the coming automobile industry. When Walter Briggs was unable to get World Series pasteboards because the ball club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter...
Henry II. Davis, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Ontario, was the dissenting judge, breaking the precedent of unanimity which has marked the Ames Competitions for almost two decades. Both of the other judges, Charles A. Goss, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and Morris A. Soper, United States Circuit Justice for the Fourth Circuit, gave decisions of acquittal for the defendant...
...judges selected are the Hon. Charles A. Goss, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska; the Hon. Mr. Justice Davis, Justice of the Court of Appeal of Ontario; and the Hon. Morris A. Soper, United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit...