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Word: groundhog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet blue haze of North Carolina's high Pisgah National Forest, Ranger Ted Seely, 51, brier pipe in mouth, tramped through tree-darkened groves where waterfalls trickled down slopes and an occasional deer or groundhog darted into a clearing. His top worry of the day was checking the waters of the Pigeon, Hominy, Davidson and other rivers to be sure that they were flowing silt-free; miles below three North Carolina communities and some of the state's biggest paper, cellophane, rayon and nylon plants were depending on a steady 100 million gallons daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. National Forests: The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Richard Eberhart best defined his approach as a poet when he said in his poem The Groundhog...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Richard Eberhart's Reading | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Eustace is an astigmatic groundhog who, having misread his calendar, staggered through the door of the Crime last night a dey ahead of schedule. Hopping to a typewriter, he borrowed a pair of spectacles and began to pound away madly, leaving the following advice for Monday-Wednesday-Friday classgoers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need A Course: I | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

...cheerful spring term begins paradoxically today--Groundhog Day--with the freezing of the month's first slush and the prospect of signing cards continuously for five minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Drops to 4,340 As College Registers Today | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...Registration at Memorial Hall may be less romantic than skiing, but at least the march will end with multicolored forms and not the overly-familiar bluebooks. It is even rumored that the delay of the snowfall until after the last exam has a mystical significance. Vermont's official groundhog watcher, for example, reports that yesterday's belated winter assures a fair spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . Le Deluge | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

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