Word: shored
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...founder of the American Legion in Los Angeles has announced that Professor Albert Einstein should be kept from the pristine shore of California on the grounds that he is a purveyor of scientific fifth and falsehood. Dr. A. B. Houghton, of the American Legion in examining the theory of relativity finds that it is really not worth serious consideration, but Herr Einstein's remarks on militant pacificism were beyond the bounds of democratic decency...
...town, situated on the west shore of Staten Island, was first called Long Neck, but the post office address was discontinued in 1866. In 1873 appeared Joseph Wild Co., later becoming American Linoleum Manufacturing Co. First superintendent of the factory was a man named Melvin. Later two communities sprang up, Travisville (after an early settler) and Linoleumville. Subsequently the post office address of both places was called Linoleumville, becoming a part of New York City...
...them yellow and sweet-tempered. They wear no clothes, live in the Stone Age manner. Dr. Dickey had taken harmonicas with him for gifts, discovered they needed agricultural implements more. While the rest of the party went farther up the river, Mrs. Dickey, who accompanies her husband, stayed on shore with the Guaharibos. The tribe has an unusually high infant mortality rate. Mrs. Dickey said the women wailed all night for their dear children, while the men slept. She liked the Guaharibos men, described them as sensitive, friendly. Said she: "I never saw finer instincts in any white men than...
...proud mammoth was a sorry grotesque sight. One wing, stripped of its covering, stretched its blackened framework upward at a crazy angle. The other, now unbalanced, dipped its weight into the sea. The hull was blackened, much of the interior flooded. Said Captain Friedrich Christiansen, returning from his shore visit, "It's hard luck, but our ocean trip will not be called off. It is only delayed...
...Tabor Acad. 7, 4; Thayer Acad. 7, 13; Worcester Acad. 7, 4; Avon Old Farms 6, 0; Brookline Bigh 5, 19; Fieldston School 5, 5; Gunnery School 5, 3; Lynn Classical High 5, 4; Malden High School 5, 2; Melrose High 5; Moses Brown School 5; North Shore Country...