Word: flora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the Chevalier Chateaubriand had already journeyed to America in search of noble savages and exotic flora...
Crimson runners Ed Sheehan and Mark Meyer gave the 5000-meters an all-out effort, but John and Bob Flora, Northeastern's superb distance duo, raced to one-two status; and the afternoon was over, the Huskies ahead by six points with only the five-point 1600-meter rally remaining...
...World naturalists believed that the newly discovered land to the west was inhabited by spiders the size of cats, beasts more cunning than anything in mythology, and plants capable of curing most of the ills that befell man. The field naturalists who began studying North American flora and fauna in the 18th century proved that the realities were in some ways as unbelievable as the fantasies. The amateur collectors and skilled scientists fanned out into the New World gathering animals, insects and plants by the bushelful. By the end of the 19th century, they had succeeded in writing not merely...
...impossible. Even Adams' fervent admirers admit that he can be spotty: at best an artful cataloguer of flora and fauna, at worst a windy sentimentalist. Memorable passages occur only when his imagination roosts among furry creatures or in the mid-regions of myth. Give him anything more difficult to chew on than a bone, and things fall apart. The story of Rowf and Snitter is glutted with just such indigestibles...
...harrier Rodney Garland dueled successfully with freshman John Murphy for the lead, rewriting another facility record, while in the two mile event John and Bob Flora grabbed the top two slots for Northeastern...