Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multiple human births, approximately one pair of twins occurs to every 87 singles; one set of triplets to about 7,569 (87 squared) singles. The chance which brought quadruplets to the Raspers was thus one in 658,503 (87 cubed). The Dionne quintuplets, who last week were awaiting a visit from the Keys quadruplets of Hollis, Okla. (see p. 38), are, according to this rule, unique among 57,000,000 humans...
...latest stunt in a lively series which has kept Texas in the nation's eye for weeks, the able publicity staff of the Texas Centennial Exposition not only sent the 21-year-old Texas Quadruplets, Mary, Mona, Leota & Roberta Keys, to visit the Dionne Quintuplets, but persuaded frosty-haired, stately old Pat Morris Neff, onetime (1921-25) Governor of Texas, to escort them. Pat Neff is president of Baptist Baylor University, where the four Keys Quadruplets are juniors. At Callander, Ont. the Keys' chorused, after seeing the Dionnes: "We are really terribly thrilled...
...Nashville, Tenn. a friend read her article to blind, young Morris Frank. He wrote to Mrs. Eustis and she promptly invited him to visit her at Fortunate Fields. There he was trained to use a German shepherd named "Buddy." When he returned home he tested Buddy in congested traffic, enthusiastically cabled Mrs. Eustis that Buddy was a success, that she must come to the U. S. and start with his help a "philanthropic school" for training more dogs like Buddy. Next year the pair founded "The Seeing Eye" at Nashville. Three years ago it was moved to Morristown...
From a political speech urging the establishment of a fish hatchery at Tupelo, Miss.: "Come visit with me in Tupelo. Come and go with me on College Hill some evening and see one of our Tupelo sunsets. Come and see one of our Southern silvery Tupelo moons. I think Tupelo is the only place in the South where we have the same beautiful moons we had before the war. . . . We have the ideal place for a fish hatchery at Tupelo. Why, sir, fish will travel over land for miles to get into the water we have at Tupelo. Thousands...
Headed by President Conant, the Board of Overseers made an official visit to the library yesterday morning...