Word: gophers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather prediction, aviation, a dozen other technologies. Atoms In Action is not only authoritative but readable, for Author Harrison has a fine flair for colorful analogy, e.g., "When one of the modern atom-smashing devices is put into operation the atomic debris comes flying out like dirt from a gopher hole in which a very industrious puppy is scratching...
...Buckley waved his big hickory twice in the long eighth inning, connecting each time for a home run, to pace his Yardling teammates to a overwhelming 25 to 6 triumph over an overrated Huntington School nine yesterday afternoon on the Soldiers Field diamond. Go you Gopher...
Dartmouth spares--Gopher Brooks, Walsh, Chase, Foster, Costello, Merriam, Larkin...
...party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose on nearby Pelham Parkway, and they went out and captured him to add to the collection. And once a shipment of gopher snakes arrived at the zoo frozen like walking sticks, and had to be thawed out before they went on exhibition...
Four men, who swore they had not gotten together previously, told the tale of "the poor damn side-hill gopher animal, whose legs on one side were longer than those on another, and hence he had to walk on the side of a hill...