Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...
Football was almost over in the Midwest. Officials of the Big Ten added up gate receipts, found them lower by 10% than last year. Nebraska, Big Six champion, played a charity game, improved by the presence of six bands, against Colorado Aggies and won it, with three touchdowns in the last quarter...
...California). The board chairmanship, a purely honorary post, rotates among pundits active in other positions. Some who have held it: Harvard's late great Charles William Eliot and its present President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Yale's late great Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus William Frederick Slocum of Colorado College, President Rush Rhees of the University of Rochester. Sir Robert Alexander Falconer of the University of Toronto. Princeton's Dr. John Grier Hibben has been president since November 1930. His turn ended last week. Elected to take the next turn was twinkling, goat-bearded President William Allan Neilson...
Slice of Sweetness. That Phillips Lord's program is an adroit combination of tasteful humor and genuine piety, few observers have denied. Proof of its genuineness appeared when Seth Parker and his troupe went touring-from Buffalo early last month, continuing in Colorado. Utah, Oregon and California last week. Everywhere, audiences seem to represent a class which could not be won by smart, theatrical revivalism. To city theatres, churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They...
Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...