Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been credited with speeds over 800 m.p.h.-faster than the fastest airplanes (over 400 m.p.h.), than the fastest birds (over 100 m.p.h.), than the fastest land animal, the cheetah (70 m.p.h.). Most of this publicity seems to have sprung from the reports of Dr. Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, 74, an Ohio-born entomologist who now lives in Brazil. Although the flight of botflies was visible to Dr. Townsend only as a "brownish blur," he estimated their speeds at 400 yards per second (818 m.p.h...
...path of the artificial fly was already a blur, at 26 m.p.h. it was barely visible, at 43 m.p.h. the direction of rotation could not be told, and at 64 m.p.h. the object was entirely invisible. Comparing the appearance of his artificial fly while in motion with Dr. Townsend's descriptions. Dr. Langmuir concluded that a good estimate of the deer botfly's speed was 25 m.p.h...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will give a reading in Brattle Hall at 9 o'clock Monday evening for the benefit of the Cambridge Hospital League. Subjects of the reading have not been announced...
Oklahoma has had many bounties. Between 1889 and 1902 some 420,000 U. S. citizens got free homesteads in Oklahoma. Other lucky Oklahomans have struck oil. Their less lucky neighbors have made Oklahoma a No. 1 centre of easy money crusades, including the Townsend Movement, whose Cherokee-blooded onetime Vice President Gomer Smith Oklahoma last year elected to Congress. Last week it appeared, however, that some dishonest Oklahomans had found another bounty, the Social Security Board's old age assistance plan...
...public hearings before the Board last week blame for the State of Oklahoma's rolls appeared to rest on: 1) political subordinates, 2) Indians, 3) the possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were...