Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London hotel room last week was Dr. Bailey Willis, 72-year-old geologist-emeritus of Stanford University, attache of the Carnegie Institution, scientific advisor to states and governments.* He had just returned from a 7000-mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking...
...Berlin last week an amorous he-locust was allowed to utter his mating call in front of a radio microphone. In another room the delicate sound was so perfectly reproduced and broadcast that a she-locust, duped, at once took wing, flew into the loudspeaker, bumped her head...
...rabbit-hunting must ask a farmer's permission before venturing into his thickets. Likewise, those who wish to hunt apes and elephants in King Albert's 500,000-acre game preserve in Belgian Congo will have to ask permission of a committee whose personnel was announced last week by King Albert's Ambassador to the U. S., the Prince de Ligne...
...dawn outside, but in the long stables at the New Orleans Fair Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
...Last week at Rome, in the Via Monte Zebio, a plump little woman in rusty black clothes stood up to receive the approval of Fascist officialdom, the applause of learned contemporaries, the acclaim of 100 disciples from 21 nations. Dottoressa Maria Montessori had come home, after 16 years, to reinaugurate her Theoretical & Practical Training Course on Child Education, under the auspices of the Italian Government. An honorary member of the Fascist party since 1926, she had been recalled by Il Duce himself, elected by the Ministry of Education to conduct her own new experimental school -the Opera Montessori-after...