Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water around it is often bright green with spawning lobsters. Few fishing grounds on earth are richer. But every attempt to cash in on the St. Paul bonanza has failed. A boat called the Austral disappeared into the fog with all hands. Crews on the Kerguelen and Réve, two other ships which made the attempt, could not stand the chilly weather. Since the sole diet on St. Paul is lobster and fish, a 1931 party of seven got 1) terrible tempers; 2) scurvy. Four of them died...
Puffing his pipe in Chapel Hill, N. C. last week, Sir Richard observed: "All my life I've been so busy writing about things that had to be covered that I haven't had time to write about things that intrigued me most. Now that time has come. I've retired as Nature's editor but I have ambitious plans ahead. I'm just 74. My mother lived to be 90 and my father to 84, and, with good health now, I'm not planning to quit...
...TIME Magazine [TIME, Nov. 7], it has been rumored here that I sent this news to your magazine for publication! How absurd this is! I can truthfully say I never sent publicity to a magazine or a newspaper in my life unless I was asked for it. I've never answered a critical book review. I feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head with a blackjack when my head is turned is something...
...thing to get straight is the talk about me leaving Kentucky by being driven out because I was hit with a blackjack! I'm not leaving Kentucky until I get good and ready to go. Kentucky is my home. I love Kentucky. I was born here. I've lived here among these hills in W-Hollow nearly all my life-with the exception of the years I spent in Tennessee in college and a year abroad. Despite the fact I've been sued for $75,000 I owe a lot of people in Greenup County...
...cuts the time in half; I've clocked it," Dunn said. After finishing his reading and dictating, Dunn trots the scored cylinders down to the typing service, has legible notes made in his own words without the time-consuming fuss of scrawling them himself, and deciphering them later...