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According to my cousin, Dr. Lois Gannet. the Hon. W. E. Edge "frequently 'chaunks' in Paris" instead of "chomps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Wells 440-Yard Run--Cup presented by S. Gannet Wells '86. 1928 winner, R. G. Gould '30. Harvard record: 48s. by Westmore Fillcox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANDICAP MEET TO GIVE UNIVERSITY CHANCE ON CINDERS | 5/9/1929 | See Source »

...whirled like a white gannet with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minstrel | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...poor puffin! The poor gannet, poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ornithic Atrocities | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

Notes of the parade state that at "Dr. Gannet's school, on Chester Square, the young ladies were unusually demonstrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stirring Torchlight Parades Marked College Campaigns Half-Century Ago | 10/10/1924 | See Source »

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