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...long distances, get lost, "and run around in a manner directly contrary to their usual habits." Grey Owl had already wired his wife, Anahareo, who was visiting her parents in Ontario, to come help him, and the two Indians had their hands full. They could only sleep in the forenoon, when the beaver slept. The rest of the day and night the tireless animals, in their frustrated industry, gouged up the floor, gnawed through the partition, built high scaffolds in an attempt to reach the water, climbed into bed with Grey Owl and his wife. The Grey Owls...
...note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington] . . . at 40 m.p.h. at 10:30 a.m. of the forenoon of Jan. 30, 1936, and another man was similarly driving a Ford westward along the same section, from 17th to 18th, at 30 m.p.h. at 4 p. m. of the afternoon of Aug. 10, 1913. How swiftly are the two cars approaching? The question is obviously meaningless. The two cars...
...first of the issues will appear on the morning of Wednesday, September 16. There is nothing scheduled for this forenoon except a chamber concert in Sanders Theatre, but in the afternoon there will be the reception of the visiting delegates. After this there will be a dinner to the Council of the Associated Harvard Clubs at the Harvard Club of Boston at 6.30 o'clock...
...Next forenoon when the Potomac steamed into Nassau Harbor escorted by the destroyers Monaghan and Dale, Franklin Roosevelt had doffed his seagoing shorts and sweat shirt, had decorously attired himself in slacks and a gabardine sport coat to receive his guests. When press and secretaries soared in aboard a Pan-American plane, they found Franklin Roosevelt on the quarter-deck of the Potomac entertaining his guests, the Governor General and Lady Clifford (nee Gundry of Cleveland); Sir George Johnson, President of the Bahamian Legislative Council; U. S. Consul Frank A. Henry & Wife...
...House Chaplain sonorously wound up his opening prayer one forenoon last week, a small frown knit the bushy brows of Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns. The House was being criticized for its slow legislative pace-and somehow he was being held responsible (TIME, April 22). He realized that a crisis was at hand, for two spiced goblets threatened his legislative program: 1) the baseball season was scheduled to open that afternoon in Washington, and 2) members were agitating for a three-day recess over Good Friday...