Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born from mud, nor caterpillars from leaves; like almost all other animals, they develop from the union of sperm cells and egg cells. Next comes the reproduction of fish and frogs, a barnyard view of chickens and cows. After the cow comes man. Dr. Levine bridges the gap with two pictures: a mother nursing her baby, a calf nuzzling at the udder...
...where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly over Boone's old Wilderness Trail into Kentucky...
...expert archers who gathered for the five-day hunt through Chattahoochee's forests and tangled rhododendron "hells" got lots of sage advice from Ranger Woody: >-"The way to get a deer is to find a gap and then sit down and wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then...
...Your Mind? Participants to date have advocated everything from a Theatre Patrons' Protective League to end double features to a League for the Abolition of Amateur Ketchup Throwing. Not long ago it was suggested that fencing foils be used to settle family disputes, that the gap between Alaska and Asia be plugged so that the Japanese Current would not be chilled by meeting up with the Arctic Current. Another thinker revealed that he was working on an airplane that could make 800 miles an hour. Another mind had invented an inverted periscope for seeing fish under water. After...
...Harlowmen, two linesmen, Dick Pfister and Burgy Ayres, who until today have heard the referee's starting tweet from secure positions on the bench, will this afternoon held down berths of the opening lineup. Pfister has been recalled from the ranks of the blocking backs to plug a gap at right guard. Ayres gets the nod over Lone Star Diets mostly because of his more accurate snap-backs. Diets has shown himself a lion on defense in heavy duty games thus far when Ayres was out with an injury.Pete Elsor's smashing play has won him a regular starting berth...