Word: origin
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...London papers, commenting on the birth at Glamis last week traced the origin of the Home Secretary-Royal birth rule to the famed Warming Pan legend of the birth of James II's son, James the Old Pretender, father of Bonnie Prince Charlie, in 1688. Mary, James II's consort, gave birth to a son before her time. Contemporary rumor was that the child was not Mary's at all, but was brought to her, new born, in a long-handled warming pan. Whether this is the origin of the custom in Britain or not, nearly all other monarchies have...
...glory. It has amazing extent. Not only does the Wizard figure out what needs inventing and then invent it, but he trains a sales force, markets his product. At heart a chemist, he is entirely at home in physics, astronomy, architecture, politics. Many business practices owe their origin to him. His phenomenal memory recalls with equal ease the make of his first printing press, the dimensions of his early laboratory, scientific facts pertaining to his many inventions, and every superior funny story anyone has told...
...origin of the anti-snake rule came ten years ago when I was assistant managing editor; before that time beginning in 1900 thirty years ago I had in the capacity of telegraph editor, city editor, news editor and acting managing editor, done my bit to keeping down the free publicity for snakes, but not always with complete success. Until the Bungle comic page of two weeks ago the record over the last ten years had been perfect. I have always disliked snakes and I have seldom met others, especially women, who did not share to some extent this feeling...
...Leaders of the Kurd movement have received money from England. The Kurds are using machine guns of British origin...
Scientists divide earthquakes into two main groups, those of volcanic origin (generally local in character), and what they call tectonic earthquakes: slipping and faulting of the earth's crust either from subsurface erosion or (as many now hold) a result of the gravital pull of the sun and moon. Though Vesuvius had been in mild eruption for a fortnight before last week's quake, Italy's greatest seismologist, Professor Giovanni Agamennone, insisted that last week's cataclysm belonged to the latter class...