Word: brook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King: "I will brook no interference with my private affairs...
...Others are at Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Bound Brook...
Since there are approximately 1470 men enrolled in the Law School, the Phillips Brook's poll, representing a mere 670 men is too small to be really accurate. Must one conclude that the silent three-fifths will also vote for the democratic candidate particularly after most of the important men on the faculty have declared their intention to support Governor Landon...
...Balding at No. 2, the team-with Pete Bostwick and Tommy Hitchcock at Nos. 1 and 3-could have been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts made the second game at Meadow Brook last week less one-sided but the upshot was the same. When it was over, 8-to-4, Manuel Andrada, Andres Gazzotti, Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh were the first poloists who had beaten the U. S. in an international series since England...
...great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal as well as causing floods. In 1857 the Ohio legislature decided that passenger pigeons "the most abundant and the most...