Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formulate his decision. Director Darling began with a duck census, taken by conservation agents and helpful sportsmen all over the U. S. one day last February, just before the northward flight (TIME, Feb. n). Census-takers posted themselves on bays, inlets, lakes and rivers in such a way as to try to avoid counting the same ducks twice. Against the rough tally thus obtained, the Biological Survey checked later reports from northern breeding grounds, arriving at the figure of 24,000,000 as the number of ducks that will fly south this autumn...
Since some 600,000 gunners bought the $1 duck stamps which Director Darling issued last year to raise funds for wild fowl conservation, he can count on probably one million duck gunners who, if each killed only a dozen ducks all season, would reduce the visible duck supply by one-half...
...Nazi flag with its great swastika. The Reds, as Germans fully expected they would be, were at once attacked by New York policemen. During this Wild West conflict, Captain Leopold Ziegenbein stood aloof and calm on the Bremen's bridge in a uniform of cool white duck. Said he as New York ambulances clanged away with dozens of injured and his ship prepared to sail for Germany: "We don't know what the future has in store for us. We don't know what is going to happen next...
...Nebraska, and a fine delegation from Congress, including Col. Edward Halsey, pompous but popular secretary of the Senate, and Senators Tydings, Dieterich, Walsh, Barkley, Radcliffe, Copeland, Duffy, Gerry. The only political outsider present was Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead who, though a Farmer-Laborite, is a crack duck hunter...
...noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck painted blue. Wryly observed the late Blue Eagle's onetime master: "This is exactly like the New Deal was in about June...