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...that Old Hickory possessed, and what he must do was clearly to rise to the situation and make the most of it. There were those college fellows chuckling over his supposed humiliation, but they were to meet a man who was not to be caught in the classical trap they had set for him. Rising to his feet just at the proper moment, the new Doctor of Laws asfounded the assembly with a Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit...
...point raised by Conservatives in the House last week was whether the words of "God Save the King" are at all "suit able." It was hoped to trap the Labor Government into a damning admission that they...
...m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned around and drove back again. Mist obscured the timing trap where a red bulls-eye was hung to guide him. Slightly off his course Capt. Campbell nearly missed the guide, but saw it in time and swerved into the measured mile without taking his foot off the throttle. His average time for the two trips- 245.733 rn.p.h.. faster...
...formerly of the Boston Post." In infinite, fanciful detail it elaborates the dark story given out two years ago by newspapers: that Constance, youngest daughter of the Morrows, after receiving a threatening letter at Milton Academy, Mass., was stealthily whisked away and a decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware of all that had occurred, laid siege...
...spring of 1915 he built a goose trap, started to band the great wild Canadian goose. Naturalists knew that the Canadian goose flew into the North in the spring, but they needed more information about its nesting place, its migratory paths. In October, Jack Miner received word of his first banded goose. It had been shot by an Indian in unsurveyed territory in Hudson's Bay Co.'s district. Several years later Rev. W. G. Walton, Anglican missionary to northern Indians and Eskimos, returned to civilization for the first time in 30 years, went to Kingsville with...