Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your brief reference to Governor Adlai E. Stevenson's veto message concerning the notorious anti-cat measure [a bird lovers' bill "to prohibit cats from running at large" in Illinois]: I wish to state that The American Feline Society, Inc. played no small part in this legislative battle which could have conceivably cost the lives of 5 millions of Illinois cats...
...anyone who has never done it knows, news reporting is fascinating work. The CRIMSON interviews everyone from bigots to bird-watchers, and crowned heads all over Cambridge tremble when the word comes around that "the CRIMSON wants to talk to you." Selling ads is fun, too; there is a feeling of triumph that comes from selling a cagey Square merchant that is unparalled by the most intensive experience the Quad could offer...
...surprise of the night was furnished by Navy diving ace Jerry Anderson, who handed E.I.S.L. champion Pete Dillingham his first defeat. Anderson's last dive rated a straight nine, giving him 145.6 points to edge Dillingham's 144.7. The other Middle win came in the breaststroke, where Neal Bird finished ahead of Harvard's Ken Emerson and Ralph Zani...
Breaststroker Neal Bird, who broke the Naval Academy record three weeks ago, dislocated his shoulder Tuesday afternoon and will be out for the remainder of the season. The Middles' outstanding distance man, Jan Vanderaluis, contributed to the Crimson cause by falling down a flight of stairs and spraining his ankle...
...methods of therapy and by relationships in which it is the doctors who must not be antagonized, Jim Downs finally pretends love for his wife so as to be released into her custody-which means held permanently in her clutches. Hence the title; the shrike is a bird that impales its prey on thorns...