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...cent greater than the past $4 years of observation have shown them to be," declared Leon Campbell, of the Harvard Observatory staff, in an interview yesterday. "Of course, we have always known that the space occupied by our system was larger than our observations of Neptune showed, but such sudden definite proof is certainly very awing...
...connoisseur of the gestures of politicians, President Hoover took sudden and inexplicable fright at this mounting stack of legislation in the House which, if really enacted, would certainly have emptied the Treasury. A White House breakfast was called, with House and Senate Republican leaders and Treasury officials in attendance. Alarm was felt. The President was told, falsely or otherwise, that the pressure behind all these bills was inordinate, that something would have to be done to check the drive on the Treasury...
Epileptoid types: tending to have epileptic convulsions, hysterical fits, sudden bursts of temper, head aches (migraine); diseases of the brain itself and of the ductless glands, rarely cancer...
...Anderson, S. C., Coroner J. M. Clark was asked to hold an inquest to determine what had caused the sudden demise of a blackamoor found dead after a dinner of nine cans of sardines, a bottle of buttermilk, two boxes of crackers and a plate of spareribs...
...field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...