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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...find a parallel for this cruelty, and at the same time the origin of our name "stool pigeon," in The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania, a book compiled some years ago by Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, at present U. S. minister to Bulgaria...
Very fine and praiseworthy your insistence that ''racket" be kept a word undefiled by loose usage. But why not, while you were at it, tell the origin and specific applications of the word so that we can know how to use it properly...
...lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge and coffee, out for a walk went Finland's George Washington or First President (1919-25)-Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg. With him walked his wife. Esther, one of Finland...
...present moment are the tapestry and paintings, which are now on exhibit at the Museum. The tapestry, which exemplifies a type of weaving and design not previously exhibited in the permanent collection here, probably was worked in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. It is of Flemish origin...
...earthquake of moderate intensity was recorded at the Harvard Seismography Station Saturday morning, beginning at 2.14 o'clock. The distance from Cambridge is computed as approximately 4300 miles and the time at the origin at 2.03 o'clock. This distance from Cambridge crosses several active seismic areas including one on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, one in South America. Italy and Central Europe. The exact location cannot be determined from the records of a single station, however the character of the record in this case, suggests South America as the probable source of the disturbance...