Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the rest of the U. S. fisheries. Even the lobster take is 20,000,000 below par. Mr. Hoover announced it was undesirable for the Federal Government to take this matter in hand. He will ask the states to come to a working agreement. Primarily, there is one thing they can do about it; they can purify the coastal waters by regulating the drainage of their industrialized commonwealths...
...another thing can be done by the public and the fisheries?learn. Ignorance excludes many a worth-some sea creature from the common diet. Gunners, sea mussel, goosefish, shark, skates, rays, tilefish, sea robins, black drums?all are waiting to be introduced to the U. S. fish knife...
...English Politics and on the reform movement?" The essay should take some sixteen hours of preparation. It is possible to scamp the work a bit, but it is hard to believe that an Oxford tutor could be made to accept an essay taken bodily from the Encyclopedia Britanica, a thing which certainly has been done at Harvard. The pupil reads the essay aloud to his tutor, which takes about half the hour. The tutor then spends the rest of the hour picking the essay to pieces or discussing ideas suggested by it. Everything here depends on the tutor. The dull...
Open practice for University football graduates will be one of the novelties of next fall's gridiron season, Coach Fisher announced at the annual dinner of the Varsity Club in the Union last night. Coach Fisher said, "I am convinced that it will be an excellent thing both for the coaches and the players of the present to come into closer contact with the football men of the past...
...profoundly sympathetic nature. When a proposal was made recently to motorize the gondolas of Venice, Mussolini said nothing, but when little Mariapia Cafagna of New York presented him with a petition of her own composition, signed by four hundred Americans, the superlative "human-interest" side of the thing pierced through his gruff exterior, and touched the great although little-known heart...