Word: willfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scientists 2,000 years hence who wonder about the evolution of dogs, will have but to go to Yale University's Peabody Museum and examine the bones of 200 canine generations which will then be on exhibition. Specimen dogs of the 79 recognized breeds will be mounted, put side...
Elected. Philip R. Clarke, of Chicago; to be president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois. Joseph Edward Otis, retiring president, will become board chairman. Retiring Board Chairman Charles Gates Dawes will be Honorary Chairman.
Birthday. Paul Allman Siple of Erie, Pa., Sea Scout (branch of Boy Scouts of America), youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition; in Little America. Age: 21. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter ("Duffle Bag") Beard, felicitated him over the radio, announced his promotion to grade of mate of the Sea...
Birthday. Albert Abraham Michelson, measurer of light, first U. S. Nobel Prizeman in science (physics, 1907), whose optical studies gave Albert Einstein a main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of...
When the corpse of a bearded man, dressed only in pajamas, was found stretched on the pavement of London's Horse Guards Parade, it seemed a fairly simple matter to identify him. But it soon turned out that: his beard was false, a patch of his left eyebrow shaved...