Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Professor Browne's students went to his classroom last week, they were surprised to find his door closed. Fixed upon it was this sign: "The papers from the class are the poorest I ever got in 20 years of teaching. ... It would be wise not to bother me for the rest of the week, which I must spend in humiliation and prayer...
...dismaying is its inexhaustible enthusiasm for reproduction. Vegetarian more often than insectivorous, starlings strip cherry trees, peck at strawberries, punch holes in lettuce leaves. Their voices are as rough as crows; they fight constantly among themselves. A nuisance already in many a U. S. town, starlings had by last week become a pest in the national capital. Washington citizens wrote letters to the newspapers. It seemed only a matter of days until some starling would visit an indignity upon President Hoover...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
Alister G. MacDonald, London architect, elder son of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, landed in Manhattan to begin a five-week inspection of U. S. architecture. Cities he will visit: Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland. Chicago...
...Last week Professor Joseph Christie Whitney Frazer, 54, of Johns Hopkins University, felt the intimation of such fortune. He is a chemist who has made a thoroughgoing study of gas adsorption and of catalysts. His knowledge he recently applied to motor exhaust CO, inventing a way of detoxicating it. What his process is he refused to explain publicly last week. A patent was not yet granted. In effect, he has found a catalyst which will quickly, cheaply, thoroughly get CO turned into C02 before it leaves the automobile. The catalyst is placed in the exhaust pipe line. How best...