Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare people who hold an academic position which would be acceptable to his roving genius. For a Professor who can spend four months of the year in Wales and four in Cambridge, and use the remaining weeks for attending Pacific conferences and international conclaves has somewhere in him the wee small voice that tells a wanderer. Not enough for him to know the secret workings of diplomacy so intimately that crowned heads fear, learned heads respect, and student heads headache at the mention of his name, but he must also put into practise, a step anomalous for a professor...
...Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals (Manhattan) announced it would award its medal for persons "who have rendered distinguished service in protecting animals" to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd in recognition of his devotion to his terrier Igloo...
...Harry Lauder, Scottish clownster, stepped out of a bath tub in a Chicago hotel, slid, flip-flopped, broke his right ninth rib. Continuing to fulfill remunerative engagements, he said: "Bathrooms be a wee bit dangerous at times...
After weeks of practice and preparations, which, in passing, provided glider licenses for both Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, the combined Lindbergh and William Hawley Bowlus forces brought forth a record last week. At San Diego, Bowlus, in his slender, wide-winged, motorless plane soared into the wee hours of the morning for 9 hr. 5 min. He failed to break the German world's record of better than 14 hr., but established a new U. S. mark. Later he helped his famous friend into a brand new glider, saw him take off at La Jolla, watched...