Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard station for research in tropical botany and zoology, was founded in 1898. In addition to a laboratory building equipped for research, the station has about one hundred acres devoted to the cultivation of economic plants and to experimental grounds used for the production of improved varieties of sugar cane. Marine studies are carried on at Cienfuegos...
...pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and exalted Master of Eliot House, brandishing his cane like the bloody brand of Rollo. The little lad turned pale and fled for the river, but Sir Roger, undaunted, steamed after him in hot pursuit, and, reaching out with the crook of his cane, hooked him by the belt of his trousers on the steps of Weeks Memorial Bridge. Then...
...side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane and gloves of late. That was, however, all right. I could manage to steer clear of her on the twenty-ninth by taking Alice to the movies. But now Alice has started it. Last night she got out the pink frock. She's bought herself a pair of silk stockings...
...could hardly repress a laugh as I watched the old fellow, wiping beads of perspiration from his brow, fidgeting nervously with the golden head on his cane. Finally he walked up the stairs to the Sanctum. I could hear him moving about, piling the furniture before the door, and locking the windows. At length he called down to me through the copy shoot...
...taking his daily stroll in Washington's Rock Creek Park. He is set upon by two young women in men's clothes. One pinions his arms. The other fumbles beneath his heavy overcoat in search of his wallet. The Senator breaks loose, casts about with his cane, whistles shrilly. Foiled, the two young women turn, flee...