Word: crab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sundays he can always be found sitting contentedly on his front lawn, colorfully attired in a pair of bright blue slacks, digging crab grass from his garden with his two lively youngsters. So it is from personal experience that he is able to draw his frequent analogies from child behaviour. But in spite of a busy life of teaching and acquiring knowledge, he envies men of action. "The life of a philosopher," he says, "is the life of the mind...
Navy never had a chance to show Harvard its highly publicized wares. At the Mass. Avenue Bridge, which the crews reached practically simultaneously, Phil Childs, the Blue and Gold stroke, caught a half-crab and consequently jumped his slide...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom innumerable children have been named, now has a small sea animal namesake: an amphipod crustacean, related to the shrimp, lobster and crab, which inhabits Magdalena Bay on the coast of Lower California, and which was discovered there by a Smithsonian scientist in 1938. The name is much longer than the quarter-inch crustacean itself: Neomeganphopus roosevelti...
...debris of the fantastically brilliant exploding star recorded by Chinese stargazers in 1054 A.D. now forms the Crab nebula. "This star shone temporarily ten times brighter than the moon," said Rudolph Minkowski of Mount Wilson Observatory, "and was visible for a full month in the daytime sky. It was . . . one of the three supernovae which have appeared in the Milky Way during the last thousand years. The others were Tycho's star in 1572, and Kepler's Nova of 1604." In Pasadena next day Minkowski's colleague, Walter Baade, announced finding the debris of Kepler...
...sailing canoe is indigenous to Chesapeake Bay. Modeled after those used by Indians in Maryland waters, its hull is hewn out of three or five huge logs, spiked together. Long before the Civil War, Bay fishermen used log canoes for tending crab pots. During the war, they were used to run the blockade from the Eastern to Western shore. The watermen of St. Michaels took to racing one another, began to build lighter, faster racing boats...