Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hockey games have been planned for the University and Freshman teams for the remainder of the week. The University team will face the Canadian outfit from St. Francis Xavier tomorrow evening in the Arena, and on Friday they will board the train to Buffalo, where they are scheduled to meet the Nichols Club Saturday evening...
...latest film he went through British East Africa with wife and camera. Four years ago Mr. & Mrs. Johnson established themselves in the jungle, set up their picture takers, and invited the animals to "see the birdie." Their reels reveal that alligators, elephants, wild-beasts, ostriches, zebras, water buffalo, giraffes, antelopes, and lions saw the birdie. Close-ups of these various beasts in their natural state required superhuman patience, stubborn tenacity, certain courage. Parents who take their children to the zoo will be unconscionably delinquent if they do not take them to Simba, Parents will themselves be surprised, delighted, often amazed...
...promiscuous figure, because her refusal to marry was based partly on her unwillingness to accept the conventional limitations of femininity, she has been remembered. Her influence in succeeding generations has been powerful and, in the main, propitious; although today she receives the same reverence that small boys tender to Buffalo Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research...
...evening of Thursday, February 9, a game is scheduled with St. Francis Xavier, in the Boston Arena. Two days later, on Saturday February 11, the puck-chasers will pack their skates and sticks to Journey to Buffalo where they are to play against the Nichols Hockey Club...
Over the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Buffalo is 447 miles from Manhattan. Intervening is a country marvelously rich in farm, mine and factory products. They furnish a revenue of approximately $75,000,000 a year to the railroad. Of that sum about $8,000,000 is net profit. Control of so profitable a road is worth fighting for. And men, sitting in Philadelphia for the corporation's annual meeting of stockholders last week, did fight...