Word: deere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guthrie supplied a capital story by inviting Red Indians into his church (St. Mark's-in-the-Bomverie) and having them dance an aboriginal fandango before the uncurtained altar. Os-Ke-Non-Ton, the Running Deer, took the lectern in feathered headdress and hailed the elements in his native tongue. The organ beat a tom-tom. Incense burned. Dr. Guthrie explained: "If you think you can treat religion like a bug and put it under a microscope, you are wrong. Religion can be found alive only in experience...
Professor C. H. Moore chose Alaska as the place in which to spend his summer vacation. He travelled over the "great open spaces" in search of game, accompanied by guides and a caravan of twelve pack mules. He bagged a good many deer, bears and lynx--bringing back the antlers of one of the deer as trophies to revive his memories of the trip...
...Hartebeest a large antelope of Africa. Heete, Dutch for hart (male of red deer); beest, meaning beast...
...Health Service in 1912, after he had isolated it from ground squirrels in Tulare County, Calif. In 1920, Dr. Edward Francis of the Public Health Service discovered that jack rabbits in the states around Great Salt Lake were infected with this disease, and that the human disease known as deer-fly fever was transmitted to man by the bite of a blood-sucking fly, which had been infected previously by biting the diseased jack rabbit...
Dear Sir: A lion hunt is planned for the destruction of huge beasts that are prowling the mountains of South Platte Ca४n. One huge creature has driven away all the other game from the forests, and is killing sheep, deer and pigs near the homes. Lives of children attending sheep are unsafe. Even the dogs whine and hide when they get his spoor. The sport of tracking and killing such game is worthy of any of the men of the Capital. . . . We would like to see you and your friends enjoy this truly royal sport. . . . The cold wave...