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...that some of them had learned to make comparatively short seasonal migrations between feeding and nesting places, that generation after generation, for millions of years, they stuck to the same routes. New oceans appeared and widened under their beating wings. New mountains reared up. The climate changed as glaciers crept forward, then melted. The birds, more steadfast than the earth, kept to their ancient flight plan, though their journeys became much longer than at first and twice as long as need...
...this time many buildings had collapsed into the streets, and over the flattened city fire crept steadily. People tossed bundles of bedding and clothes out of windows and doors. Men, women & children picked their way through the ruins of houses, keeping their faces turned always toward the fire, moving more quickly when they saw the nearness of its creeping advance and felt its hot wind...
...surprised at how much I do like it") by visiting sections he had missed. One of Banks's assignments was to accompany O'Dwyer through a mayor's typical day. He joined the Mayor at the executive mansion bright and early (9 a.m.) one morning and crept away to bed 15 hours later. At that juncture O'Dwyer had settled down to read a book on traffic congestion in 2nd Century Rome...
Class Day, in other words, evolved. It crept into existence. It started creeping in 1707--more than 100 years before it came to be known as Class Day--when the Fellows of Harvard College "treated" the graduating class. Just what a "treat" is nobody seems to know, but it caused one Joseph Sewall to put in his diary that he "too much indulged vain proud thoughts...
...Fame crept in on the catfooted pair yesterday, offering them an aerial post with Ward Beam's World Champion Daredevils, opening soon in Ohio...