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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement, the laundry, last year found so old as to be useless, has been torn out and new machinery ordered, but, due to unknown causes, is as yet delayed. When completed, this unit will be able to turn out a better job than the old one in much less time, saving labor and money for other purposes...
...never again visited the U. S. and refusing a U. S. offer of $428,000 for relics of the Great Navigator in his possession, sold them instead for $164,000 to the Spanish Government in 1926. Last week the 57-year-old Duke of Veragua was. for reasons unknown, executed in Madrid together with his brother-in-law, the 72-year-old Duke de la Vega. Meanwhile Government forces, before they were driven from tourist-beloved Ronda, the most picturesque "Picture Town" in Southern Spain, slew 800 Whites...
...became the focus of mass hysteria, the man began to quiver, shake, jerk in a St. Vitus' dance. "Let him get through, oh Lord! More power, Lord! Glory! Glory!" the congregation cried. The man's arms went up. His head went back. His mouth uttered "unknown tongues" until he dropped unconscious, "slain of the Lord'' to rise later "baptized of the Holy Ghost." More than 100 holy rollers underwent this violent religious experience during Church of God's six-day convention...
...took the Pourqnoi Pas once more out of St. Malo, bound for Greenland. Said he then: "This voyage will be my last." Objectives were to bring back a party of scientists, make additional studies of the polar current and more extensive deep-sea soundings, visit a settleent of Eskimos unknown to Europeans. The explorer was expected in Copenhagen late this month to attend a reception in his honor, receive a gold medal...
...almost complete revision, during the past twenty-five years, of the educational methods and policies of Harvard College. General examinations, the Tutorial System, the Reading Periods, the House Plan, Harvard College Prize Fellowships, and the gradual reduction of compulsory attendance at classes--all these educational innovations were unknown twenty-five years ago. Yet they are integral parts of the undergraduate life of Harvard today...