Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot see in total darkness. Unlike bats, which navigate by the echoes of their own high-pitched squeaks, owls need some light, but not much. Light as dim as a single candle burning nearly half a mile away was bright enough for a barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies...
...Setting. The wedding party is in the barn, he reasons, because the farmhouse is too small. Even so, the guests have to stand in line for seats: "Everything is improvised." For instance, the pie tray is really just a door taken off its hinges...
...Barns & Bowls. It was only natural that Felix ("Doc"') Blanchard Jr. should be a fullback terror; 240-lb. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard Sr. had been one at Tulane, at least when he got mad enough. In Marlboro County, S.C., where they lived, young Doc began to imitate his old man early. When he was two and a half, he got his aunt to hold a football (see cut) and managed to kick it a few feet. The next year he tried out his father's pipe and set fire to the barn...
...scholarship "as the best all-round man" in the class. He stayed on for an M.A., took his Ph.D. at London University. Then he got a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin, took out U.S. citizenship papers, and with a young English wife settled down in a remodeled barn for what he thought was a lifetime of philosophy and writing...
...writer of pulp thrillers and children's stories, Not in Our Stars has won the $2,500 Macmillan Centenary Award. With an impressively technical knowledge of modern milk-producing, a smooth, unpretentious narrative style, and a good ear for dialogue, Author Greene makes his managers, drivers, barn boys and farm wives real, unpleasant and very much alive...