Word: florida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's two Spring football squads "Michigan" and "Florida" get their first taste of real football today when they oppose each other in the first of three regular games at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the Business School Field...
...specimens as possible of the rare and valuable tree snail was the purpose of our trip," declared W. J. Clench, Curator of Mollusks at the Peabody Museum, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter, on his return from an expedition of over a month into the Everglade region of Florida...
...tree snail is peculiar to southern Florida, Cuba, and Haiti Dwelling upon smooth-barked trees, where he can easily move about, he feeds on the algae and lichens growing there. In Florida, where the best specimens may be found, they are most numerous on the hummocks of the Everglades, and it was here that we chiefly directed our efforts...
...glades investigated was that opened by the new Tamiami Trail. The tree hummocks in this region are just like islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during the rainy season in the summer...
Died. Lee Bible, 45, Florida garage mechanic; after losing control of a 1,500-h. p. automobile moving at 202 m.p.h. along Daytona Beach...