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...July 1928, one Oliver H. Austin Jr. caught a common tern in Northern Labrador, put an aluminum band around its leg. In September 1929, the same tern, still banded, was seen and examined off the southern tip of Africa, in the Indian Ocean, 9,000 mi. from Labrador. This was accepted by the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association meeting in Boston fortnight ago, as the longest migration ever proved to have been made by a bird. The previous record was held by an arctic tern which had flown from Turneuik Bay in southern Labrador to Margate, Natal, South Africa, some...
...line consisting of F. R. Stubbs Jr. '32, E. T. Putnam ocC., and J. B. Garrison '31 was the best this season, and would probably have resulted in an even more onesided score, had not the latter been forced out of the game with a slight injury to his leg in the closing minutes of the opening stanza. Lombard and Currier played well for the losers, the latter contributing the Terrier's sole tally...
...State Department had permitted Minister Hart to travel by way of Russia was because he is the only trained newsman in the diplomatic corps, because his official reports constitute some of the most zestful reading matter coming into the State Department by official channels. Crippled in one leg, Minister Hart was appointed in 1925 by President Coolidge, who chose him from the corps of Washington correspondents where he represented Portland and Spokane papers. His reports of crudities in the Balkan capital kept his superiors in a state of giggly excitement, led to the construction of a new legation there...
...Southern Conference players who turned out in Atlanta to help the Shrine children's hospitals, split up into Blues and Cardinals, but there were seven men from Tennessee on the Blues and they knew how to work together. Bobby Dodd's stout leg got off long punts and lank Buddy Hackman spun around ends, caught long passes. In the last period the Blue line softened, letting through Jones of Georgia Tech and Bethea of Florida-too late. North 21, South...
...Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...