Word: spring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of Crawford & Associates (printers...
Across the wasteland of Alaska there is now on trek a herd of 3,000 reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested...
...measurer of light, first U. S. Nobel Prizeman in science (physics, 1907), whose optical studies gave Albert Einstein a main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of ill health. Next spring at Pasadena, Calif., Professor Michelson, now convalescing from an operation, will peer through a very straight corrugated iron pipe, from which air will have been evacuated, to determine more accurately than heretofore the speed of light...
Warily hockey followers appraised the teams of the American and International sections of the League, trying to figure out which two teams may play off for the world's championship next spring...
Boston claims the distinction of being the most musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid...