Word: raring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Park at the southwest tip of Florida. Called as a witness was a man who has spent much time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow king snake five feet long...
...Mich. The Hall of de Vaux-Hall is Col. Elbert J. Hall, automobile and airplane engineer. Motors for the de Vaux will be supplied by Continental.* Advertising during 1931 is expected to total $1,000,000. New cars by big manufacturers are common. New cars by independents are increasingly rare. Last week motormakers praised Mr. de Vaux's enterprise, pointed out the field is crowded, he will have to pedal fast and furiously to get ahead. But he has many loyal supporters in the West; he can appeal to the desire to support "home industry." Undismayed was William Crapo...
...California's - was soon discounted as a merely characteristically florid sales talk by the ageing mas ter of finance. Meantime, many thousands of Trans america's 200,000 stockholders wrote and traveled to the company's 400 branches to join in this rare game where Little Shots could play pool-partners with Big Shot...
...Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle...
...Rare have been the scientists' wives who could join actively in their husbands' scientific pursuits. In most such unions, the couples have met and worked together as young students. Marie Sklodowska was 27 when she first knew Pierre Curie at the Sofbonne. The George Frederick Dicks (she was Gladys R. Henry) worked together at McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (Chicago), developed their famed scarlet fever test nine years later as man & wife. University of Pennsylvania has its Clarks-Dr. Elliott Round and Eleanor Acheson Linton-who have done notable work together on cell microscopy...