Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover was described last week by Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, bibliophile, as the greatest book collector in the White House since Thomas Jeffer- son. Said Dr. Rosenbach: "On all his journeys he gathers volumes that in time will be valuable to the student. In China in 1899 he gathered a most comprehensive collection of books on China and the Chinese people." This he gave to Stanford University. It became the nucleus of the great Chinese library there. Dr. Rosenbach described how he had informed President Coolidge that the first edition (1865) of Alice in Wonderland...
...Harry F. Wolf, defending champion, with his famed service working well: the national squash tennis championship in Manhattan, beating Rowland B. Haines in the finals...
...Last week U. S. S. R. scientists announced a novel plan for cutting down the great packs of wolves in Siberia, making winter travel safer. At intervals throughout the wolf country will be hung microphones connected to a central telephone exchange. The "central" will listen for savage howls, locate the sending station, despatch rangers to despatch the howlers...
...sitting with his ears erect and his tail wagging outside the door, eagerly awaiting a chance to clear his character, be summoned as a witness." The Court smiled shrewdly, rejected the plea. "It is impossible," said the Court, "to administer the oath even to the most intelligent wolf...
...viciously cruel old uncle,† has invited himself to hunt with the Prince in the autumn. He is coming with his whole hunting train-a set of rakehells mostly from the cavalry -and his best hounds and horses, his finest borzois with their terrific jaws for slaying the hounded wolf...