Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kings of Spain by candlelight; its brown-skinned, barefoot rubber gath, erers get their only view of the outside world from old film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz (pop. 30,000) or Trinidad (pop. 7,500) an intrepid missionary rides forth to minister to the Indians, sometimes to be seen no more...
March of Science. In Geelong, Australia, Chemist Edgar Noble announced that he had succeeded, after four years of experimentation, in impregnating men's suits with typical scents of the Australian bush...
...start, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke made himself quite clear. He woulri leave the presidency of the middle-sized University of New Hampshire (enrollment: 3,500) and take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most...
Arthur Valpey estimated Monday afternoon that but five new men, could make positions on the first three varsity teams this fall. Transfer students Al Wilson and Joe Bush are top contenders for the open positions, as are freshmen Fred Ravreby, Tom Ossman, Bobby Ray, and sophomores Carl Bottenfield, Johnny West, and Johnny White...
...Says Optimist Vannevar Bush: "I believe I said '10 to 15%,' and didn't specify the generation interval. At 10% and 30 years per generation [Reader McSweeney] wins hands down. At 15% and 23 years, I was about right.† At 15% and 20 years, the result is over a billion billion, which is much worse...