Word: craning
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Along with Roosevelt, Joseph A. DeGulielmo '29, Mayor of Cambridge, Edward A. Crane '35, City Councillor and former Mayor of Cambridge, and Boston attorney Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, Harvard All-American, will also present Stevenson's candidacy...
...study history at the Univ. College of Wales, Aberyswth, Wales; James T. Busenburg to study agricultural planning at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, India; William T. Cheswell to study French literature at the Univ. of Paris; Albert S. Cook, Jr. to study literature at the Univ. of Paris; Wilder W. Crane, Jr. to study political science at the Univ. of Vionna; Alan Davis to study linguistics at the Univ. of Padna, Italy; Louis F. Del Duca to study law at the Univ. of Turin, Italy; Richard M. Douglas to study history at the Univ. of Montpollier, France; Joseph Finkelatein to study...
...Crane-Simplex, which in 1915 cost $30,000 and was guaranteed for the life of its owner. Designed to look like a luxurious yacht, it sported brass funnels and a propeller in the rear to hold on two spare wire wheels. The wooden trim and running boards were teakwood. Yet for all its wonderful nautical absurdity, it could do 75 m.p.h. Unfortunately for the guarantee, the company folded a few years after it started...
...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
Rowan and two assistants eagerly searched the spot. They found the cranes' tracks-two sets of big, three-toed tracks, and to the right of each set another set of baby crane prints. Last week, after studying photographs and measurements of the tracks, Professor Rowan announced that the baby crane tracks gave proof that the area is a nesting ground for the whooping crane-the first found in Canada since 1922. Under the 1916 Migratory Birds treaty with the U.S., Canada's Wildlife Service is now bound to protect the area and do all it can to prevent...