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...gold brooch of the Viking period was scratched up from the mud of a pond in the province of South Bergenhus, Norway, by a flock of geese in charge of a small boy. The curator of the Stavanger Museum pronounced it a genuine antique...
...record flight from Buffalo to Mineola, L. I. With a favorable wind of 40 miles an hour, they covered the 310 miles in 2 hours, 21 minutes, averaging nearly 150 miles an hour. Flying south of Binghamton, at a height of 6,000 feet, the officers encountered a flock of Canadian geese flying north in "V" formation. The flock broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller of a Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions...
...large audience will flock to the Peabody Playhouse," he continued, "not to see 'Sophie' because it is an interesting and artistic performance, but because it is a so-called risque play...
...real enthusiasm about painting, he must see great paintings. It is not sufficient to read books about them and study the subject of art wholly by means of photographic reproduction. It has certainly been our experience here that as we get more and better pictures at Harvard, the students flock more to the Museum and are increasingly enthusiastic. The students are not taught here that the art died with Giotto or even with Turner. On the contrary there are several pictures by Sargent, Willslow Homer, Dodge Macknight and other modern Americans in the Museum...
...year, but the margin of profit on every dollar also rose from 10.15 cents in 1922 to 11.60 cents in 1923. The remarkable thing about both these companies is their prosperity in boom and depression alike. In flush times, the poorer classes who ordinarily would not buy at all, flock to them; in hard years, buyers who, when prosperous, are willing to patronize more expensive stores, return to the chain stores to economize...