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Ickornshaw, derived from Norse words meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Some people say they know where to find 25,000 in silver buried on Long Island, say it would take only two weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser...
...liked Cambridge. We liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
...speaking of the gift of the site, Dr. Shapley said, "The general interest which Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have for long had in astronomy made them aware of the importance of the Oak Ridge site as a location for a big reflecting telescope. Their quick and generous offer to Harvard of their valuable tract has been a great satisfaction to all the members of the Observatory staff who are concerned with the operation of the new reflector...
Further plans for moving instruments to the new site are under way, and construction has already started on some of the work to be done at the new site. A road is being built at present on Oak Ridge, an artesian well is to be drilled in the near future, a detailed survey of the site is being made under the direction of Mr. Weld Arnold, of the new School of Geographical Exploration at Harvard, and the designs of the buildings are in the architect's hands...