Word: brantes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch the wing sweep of brant blown off shore by a heavy gale. The chickadee and the song sparrow are his favorite birds...
...lightens several restrictions imposed last year, sets the following dates for hunting duck, geese, brant and coot...
Retired. Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, 65, for 27 years director of University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. For three years he has been totally blind...
Jessie Wood chose Lens-Grinder Mellish from among scores of applicants. She subsequently bore eleven children, nine living. Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost and Mrs. Frost were Mrs. Mellish's first accoucheurs when her time came at the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
...Astronomical Unit, the measuring stick of the Universe. The average Earth-Sun distance has been accepted as 92,897,400 mi., triangulated from the Earth-Eros baseline. This may be 50,000 to 100,000 mi. wrong. Use of the Earth-Reinmuth Object baseline, said Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, blind retiring director of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., will reduce the error to within 10,000 mi., or about twice the longitudinal distance from Washington to Rome...