Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scouts, too, have been trekking through foreign lands. Sixteen Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were last fortnight welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London. Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions. Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark. Possibly one Scout will accompany Commander Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole...
...masted schooner "Chance", under the command of Columbus O'Donell Iselin '26, is now on its way to the waters off Bermuda. Iselin is leading an expedition to collect for the Museum of Comparative Zoology specimens of the flora and fauna of the middle Atlantic and to make a special study of the currents of the Gulf Stream...
...Olympian calm pervades Plympton Street, for the conventional huge scarlet margin has been got out, dusted, and is ready for service. The Lampoon with its gracile lethargy and its dogged comic spirit has without cessation offered itself as the goat or the this or whatever constitutes the flors and fauna of defeated parties for so many years that the CRIMSON has come to admire its tenacity and is sincere when it says that if natural laws could be overturned and two victors claim one victory there is no one that it would rather see enjoy what is now unfortunately...
Besides a great abundance of snow and ice Connecticut has very little to offer in the winter time. From henceforth, however, it will have even less, for Barnum's elephants, giraffes, monkeys--in fact his entire flora and fauna--are migrating to Florida, there to remain until time for the great spring trek...
...cinema. They explained why their married women lacked a forefinger: it was chopped off by the husband, as a honeymoon salutation. Before chopping, the husband had to qualify in bravery by letting his intended's male relatives shoot at him with arrows, which he dodged and returned. . . . Flora, fauna and pioneer maps bulged the Stirling party's homebound luggage...