Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size up situations. Male fish of nest-building species chase other males off their premises. They welcome nubile females. To the human observer it looks as if they judge approaching fish, determine their sex and promise, and act accordingly. But this, explains Professor N. Tinbergen in a recent Bulletin of the Wilson Ornithological Club, is giving them too much credit. Often all they see is a single characteristic of the approaching fish, which "releases" in them a train of automatic responses...
...deadline for Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. And dapper Jack Burket, editor recently turned columnist, was blank of ideas. Just in time, he found one, and turned out an essay on the moods of San Francisco at dawn and dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...
Undergraduate editors and writers can enter a brief competition this week for the position of writer of "The Undergraduate," a regular Alumni Bulletin feature. Competition calls for submission of manuscripts covering the news of the month from April 15 through May 15, and the winning article will appear in the issue...
...Bulletin's undergraduate page is devoted to the coverage and interpretation of news affecting the undergraduate at the College. The column involves interpretation as well as reports of the news, since it represents the undergraduate's point of view...
...formed non-athletic habits which they have carried like a plague to the Houses. But if a sound and attractive program can introduce Freshmen to the joys of softball, basketball, and other sports, they will be less inclined to pass blindly by the hopeful athletic notices posted on House bulletin boards...