Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen in Group 1 standing are Robert Ashenhurst, Jero W. Bruner, Geoffrey D. Bush, Thompson M. Clarke, Francis F. Chen, Hampton Davis, Oscar DePriest, Samuel I. Epstein, P. W. Gifford, Jr., S. William Green, Ulrich E. Kruse, Vaslilos G. Letson, Gavin Miller, James Schlesinger, V. E. Starzinger, and M. B. Yarmolinsky...
...words to the principle which ultimately wins them all and becomes a rumor in the forest: renunciation of self, even of personal freedom and of life if necessary, to help establish "that law of love which should govern all the world, prevent it from shriveling like an old furze-bush...
...these are naturally silted from the swamp above Mount Auburn cemetary; with others the ground glass bottom has been imported by generations of volunteer fireman's picnics. Their popularity is attested by statistics. Police pull far more bodies from the river's alluvial bed than from its verdant bush...
Born in the bush of French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
...Alaska has 27 major airports, 20 big secondary landing strips, 43 radio ranges, 46 weather observation stations. There are 582 commercial airplanes registered within the Territory-there had been only 99 in 1940, 157 in 1945. More important, many are efficient, multiengined aircraft. The bush pilot is still making medicine with his light plane, still landing passengers and freight in improbable corners of the country. But the DC-3 and the DC-4 do the big business, droning unconcernedly over mountains which early flyers had crossed only with the aid of rabbits' feet and gilded baby shoes...