Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visitors to the New York Aquarium last week attempted to elbow their way past guards into the laboratories to see the Aquarium's now most famed visitor- two-inch, red-finned, green-bodied Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter, Siamese fighting fish...
Fundament of the Museum is the collection called Der Mensch ("Man"). Parts of the body are there displayed in plastic, by photographs, in pickle, in transparency, most parts in all four media. Also there are bones. Many a visitor to the Museum last week involuntarily fingered his head when he beheld the Disassembled Man. Fastened to a tall, black board, like memoranda on a bulletin board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones...
Last week these words were sent forth as those not of President Herbert Hoover but of his brother Theodore Jesse Hoover. Dean of the Engineering School at Leland Stanford University. Dean Hoover, a recent White House visitor, had said such jingo things in a syllabus for students. Procuring a copy of the syllabus, the Leland Stanford Daily, student newspaper, published the Hoover quotations and an editorial flaying "militarism on a university campus...
...union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor Berger...
Some months ago Archbishop and Baron both appealed to the Pope, who found their dispute so complex that he sent to Malta as an apostolic visitor, Father Paschal Robinson, who today is Papal Nuncio to the Irish Free State...