Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...takes fifty cows to supply Dunster House with milk and at least 100 hens to keep the house dining room with eggs. 5,460 square inches of bread, 960 pieces of butter, 45 dozen hot rolls and great quantities of griddle cakes are consumed every day according to information given out by Edgar Sane, Dunster House steward...
...Spanish Iturbi was the sensation of last season. He is an elfin person, called by his friends "Petrouschka." He plays the piano as if he enjoyed it tremendously, takes each phrase separately, polishes it smooth, turns it a dozen ways to catch the different lights. Iturbi will give some 70 recitals this season, appear as soloist with the Cleveland, New York Philharmonic, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles Orchestras...
...many bears threaten to spoil the touring in Yellowstone Park too many beavers interfere with travel in Palisades InterstatePark (New York and New Jersey). Two dozen of the nocturnal, Hooveresque rodents dammed one stream so successfully that it backed up and floodeda highway. Major W. A. Welch, the park manager and engineer, set traps, caught the entire offending colony, saved State money by transferring the animals last week to a swamp which he wanted transformed into a lake to improve the scenery...
...Manhattan. Seven years ago Mrs. Knubel died. After two years' grief he married Jennie C. Christ of Manhattan. Presidency of the United Lutheran Church caused him to drop pastorate. Now he commutes daily from his New Rochelle home to his Manhattan office off Fifth Avenue, whither the half-dozen religious organizations of which he is a trustee or officer go for counsel...
...heirs of anyone killed in a railroad train who had a copy of the Daily Mail on his person; other British papers made similar offers. Two years ago. under Lord Rothermere (Northcliffe's successor-brother) the Daily Mail paid out ?50,000 when half a dozen of its insurees were killed in a wreck. Whether the stunt will now become a feature of U. S. Life is problematical...