Word: flora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
George Holburn Snowden, of Bridgeport, Conn., winner of twelve Beaux Arts competitions in sculpture, had submitted a slim, upright, nude, plaster girl, "Flora," playing with her hair...
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...
Married. Mrs. Flora Whitney Tower, daughter of Harry Payne Whitney, granddaughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; to one G. MacCulloch Miller; in Cairo, Egypt...