Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erstwhile successful Yardling football aggregation as ever powered by a Dartmouth papoose team, 23 to 12, in a game played in the Hanover hills Saturday. McNicol, ace Freshman back, led the Crimson attack which threatened the Green Team in the second half...
There are only 32 registered packs of beagles in the U. S. (all but one of them on the eastern seaboard). Each has its own color and insignia, its Master of Beagles (M.B.) and its whips (whippers-in who are permitted to wear green coats in the field). Some packs are privately owned, like Mrs. William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Beagles (a misnomer,* because a beagle could never catch a fox). Others are subscription packs, like the Treweryn Beagles of Berwyn, Pa. and the Buckram Beagles of Brookville, Long Island, which anyone with sturdy legs and a presentable...
...Zeiss projector is nowhere to be seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst out on the vaulted "sky," and the whole audience says...
...common European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, is a black-hued bird with a blue-green iridescence on its glossy plumage. Introduced to the U. S. in 1890 to crowd out sparrows, starlings themselves have become a nuisance in some eastern cities, notably Washington. When they gang up in great flocks, as they often do, they make a dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young...
...that Stinson Aircraft, having just taken $1,853,451 of Army business, was planning to expand its Wayne (Mich.) plant. Continental Motors Corp., at work (with RFC and new private money) on plane engines, was erecting two buildings at Muskegon (Mich.). A few weeks ago, Pratt & Whitney gave a green light to famed Detroit Architect Albert Kahn, who had blueprints ready on a Wednesday, received bids Thursday on 1,800 tons of structural steel for a plant in Detroit...