Word: floras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the dumping, the streams have been dammed up and have formed a pond. Thus the area encloses habitats for both swamp and dry-land flora and fauna...
...models. Nor did he return wearing beard and beret. The measure of his distance from the conventional unconventional background is that he is a respectable father of four, a full professor of art, and a citizen of Texas. For the past 30 years Professor Spruce has been celebrating the flora and fauna of Texas in imaginative oils laid on with a realistic brush. Now the University of Texas is publishing an annual full-color portfolio of the works of artists portraying the Southwest. Its first choice, picked by a blue-ribbon committee of leading Texas art patrons advised...
Citation: "The country's flora and fauna ought now to award him a scroll inscribed with the fitting title, Curator Naturae. Failing that contingency, the Princeton species of Homo sapiens takes pleasure today in bestowing upon him [an] honorary degree...
Female Lead: Barbara Blaunchard, as Monica in "The Medium"; Jo Linch, as Madame Flora in "The Medium"; Sarah Jane Smith, as Eurydice in "Orpheus...
...tragic flaw lies not in his character, but in the fact that he is only an "Acting Colonel." The War Office sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers...