Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglo-French convention of 1839 made the Minquiers Islands an international fishing zone. Shelters were permitted on them but not stone buildings for fear they would be used as fortifications. After the World War the question of sovereignty was again raised and the Minquiers group was made part of Britain's Channel Islands...
...Most miraculous miracle concerns Professor Emmett, a neurotic, misanthropic entomologist whose maladjusted marriage drives him to suicide. Reincarnated as a termite, he successfully resists the herd and fatal mating instincts of fellow ants, saves the U. S. from a terrific invasion of stone-eating termites...
Perhaps, in their search for an apt historical comparison, the editors of "Time" should have turned back a few more centuries to the story of the Trojan Horse. Very truly yours Marshall H. Stone, Professor of Mathematics...
...home in Cambridge, Mass, before sailing to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University, England. Justice Roberts headed for his Pennsylvania farm; Justice Black for a rented house at Seminary, Va.; Justice Butler for an honorary degree from Boston College, then his farm at Woodbine, Md.; Justice Stone for his 45th class reunion at Amherst, then for Isle au Haut...
Hans Friederich Blunck's ice-age novel, Power Over Fire, shows Nordic man as he emerged from the primitive state. In Struggle of the Constellations (Stone Age), and Struggle Against the Gods (Bronze Age), Blunck advanced the Nordics by archeological progression toward the Third Reich. His heroes "get their strength from the soil in which they are rooted, and from their ancestors' blood which flows in their veins...