Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been awarded the $100 George Emerson Lowell Classics Prize for his proficiency in the combination Greek and Latin languages examination, it was announced yesterday. The winner of the $100 presented for ability in the Latin test alone is Richard A. Webster of Loomis. Honorable mention went to Geoffrey Bush, of Phillips Academy, Andover, and Stephen B. Baxter, of St. Paul's School, for the joint competition, and to George J. Kandzie, of Hingham High School, and William Gifford, of Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, for the single examination award...
...mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying claims, is furnished by Canadian Pacific Airlines and by bush pilots in small planes like ski-or pontoon-equipped Noorduyn Norsemen...
Disney's setting of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring a wolf whose gullet looks like something out of Dante; a cat which, in a moment of terror, has an all-claws resemblance to a brier bush; and a cute little feeble-minded duck named Sonia...
Pounding his gavel, the President then declared the 21st and last session of the League of Nations closed. As the delegates hurried off, a lonely peacock-sole survivor of the League's once proud flock-slunk off to hide under a laurel bush...
...Clare Boothe Luce's Distinguished Gentleman Smelling Flowers, apparently based on an A.P. photograph of Harry Truman deep in a White House flower bush...