Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maryland. For netting no less than 27,252 fireflies in his own and neighboring backyards, eleven-year-old Morgan Mallory Butcher won first prize ($10) plus 25? per 100 fireflies in Johns Hopkins University's annual firefly-catching competition. The fireflies go to a biology professor, who studies them...
...Butcher to the Stand. Paul found many of his old friends still around, most of them still fiercely individualistic and stubbornly provincial. The prostitutes, officially outlawed, were still in business. Monsieur Monge, the horse butcher, was at his old stand and doing better than ever. Young Dr. Thiouville, a Communist, was new, but Paul decided that he was a fine fellow because his leftishness did not get between him and the Hippocratic oath. Love was going on as usual, with all its old Gallic casualness; so was French inefficiency (wretched telephone service, exasperating loafing on the job). Paul decided...
Last week Ernest Rand reached a solution of his relations with the Lord of Sark. He brought the local butcher to Jip, stood by while she was shot...
...Ordinary Soul. Hance made it a rule of his brotherhood never to beg for money, though they had to beg for all the food and clothing distributed to the sick old men who flocked in. Once a butcher to whom they appealed asked: "Why don't you go to work for your living instead of coming around begging?" The question, says Brother Hance, "quite upset and embarrassed us, so we ventured to say that we would cut meat for an hour if he would beg for an hour and see which one worked the hardest. This brought a very...
Advance members of the Mountaineering Club's Peruvian expedition landed in Peru yesterday with just ten days to wrap up final plans for their assault on the 21,769-foot Butcher of the Andes...