Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Turkey last week, via the Frankfurter Zeitung, came news that 20,000 stray dogs had last year been cleared off the streets of Istanbul and killed. Travelers lately returned from Istanbul were amazed at the number, having thought that Istanbul's teeming population of pariah dogs was part of its dead past...
...Imperfectly understood, death by bee sting is thought due to a special poison secreted by particular insects, possibly diseased. Apisination should be treated by gently removing the stinger, washing the wound with a weak solution of ammonia or soda, applying antiseptic. Bleeding should be encouraged...
...Moines, in the 28th Drake Relays, there were 39 events, 184 schools represented, 2,000 competitors. In the 43rd Penn Relays there were 76 events. 489 schools, 3,000 competitors. Drake had a queen (Frances Rather), warm weather the first day, cold the second. Penn had no queen (officials thought it undignified), cold weather the first day, warm the second. Drake had six 1936 Olympic trackmen, no Olympic champions. Penn had ten, of whom two (Spec Towns and Johnny Woodruff) were champions. Drake crowds totaled 20,000. Penn crowds totaled 50,000. Feature event at Drake was an invitation...
Under his guidance the AP had refused to argue the facts in the early stages of the Watson case and merely denied the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. That some publishers thought Lawyer Davis had blundered was as obvious as a nosebleed when ANPA's general counsel, Elisha Hanson, reminded the ANPA convention that the Watson case had been presented to the Supreme Court "absolutely bare of any facts in the record before the court to disprove the allegation of a violation of the law by the petitioners...
...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...