Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island and go out to sea about 9:15 with Manhattan at its southern border. New Haven at its centre and New Bedford at its north flank; then out far across the Atlantic before taking...
...earth's atmosphere, at a great angle. Moreover, the region over which it passes is none too likely to have clear weather for observation purposes. At the hours of the eclipse and at the time of the year in which it takes place, the chance of clear weather at Buffalo is only 27%. The chance at Port Huron is 36%. The chance farther eastward in the belt of totality improves, with New Haven in about the most favorable position with 51% chance of clear weather. A third unfortunate factor is that the eclipse will be brief?less than two minutes...
Examining the Nation's press, last week, readers found among the news- papers publishing crossword puzzles: The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Kansas City Star, The Detroit Free Press, The Omaha Bee, The Chicago Tribune, The Buffalo Evening News, The Cleveland Press, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Philadelphia Ledger, The Minneapolis Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Transcript and nine Manhattan dailies...
...hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was not the handbill of a bigger and better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres...
...been invited, yet no sooner had they arrived than shooting began. The Germans defended themselves, shot back with great accuracy. Three of their shots found a mark-the goal of a French workmen's soccer team. The German goal, at the other end of the field in the Buffalo Velodrome, came off unscathed. It was the first Franco-German sporting event (outside the Rhineland) since the Armistice. Said despatches: "Ten thousand Frenchmen cheered the winners. There was no hissing...