Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cuckoo problem that most deeply engrosses Ornithologist Baker and others is: How does the cuckoo get the egg into the nest? This problem is posed by the fact that some wise birds build nests with obstructive entrances for the express purpose of keeping out cuckoos. The cuckoo has developed several methods for outwitting these isolationists. Cuckooists recognize a First, Second and Third Method. In the First Method the cuckoo simply squats down and lays her egg. The Second Method is somewhat more complicated, comes into play when the cuckoo is momentarily baffled by a nest built in a hollow tree...
...McCoubrey former star 100-yards dash runner at Exeter, kept the Kirkland defense busy all afternoon with his express-train end runs. Finally, in the third quarter, he did what he had been threatening to do in the first half when he got away for a long end sprint behind the devastating blocking of former jayvee Dick Manegold and Dan Needham, going all the way for a touchdown...
...worked for six weeks this summer in Washington, as consultants to the U.S. Office of Education and the U.S. War Manpower Commission, in attempting to develop a plan by which colleges and universities of this country could be swung really instead of accidentally into the war effort, let me express my very sincere appreciation of the intelligent interpretation of the national picture presented by your magazine...
...broadcast will feature an analysis of German subversive activity by a noted British authority on the subject, W. A. Sinclaire. His talk is to be radioed to British Broadcasting officials in New York, with whom the War Service Committee has arranged to have recordings dispatched to Boston by air express...
...year at the Dalton School was the most successful; the Dalton feeling is that one should express oneself. Diana...