Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ward's board chairman is Frank Hawley Ward (grandson), who has a keen eye for fossils, seldom sees one whose name and habitat he does not know. President Gamble, onetime Cornell zoologist, got commercial experience in a Chicago biological supply house. The staff numbers 35 employes of whom nine are women...
...bobbing and very nearsighted, he looks like a clever, kind, slightly startled Bill the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland. Born in Chicago, his family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about the Western World that a casual acquaintance might be hard put to name his habitat. His grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when he was 14. He went on to become a successful corporation lawyer...
...Florida last winter Heaton Treadway met some members of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's Oxford Groups. Well aware of how those earnest evangelists stalk the upper classes in their native habitat, Manager Treadway discoursed on the advantages of the Berkshires. Result was that last fortnight Representative Treadway was saying: "I guess the movement is beneficial. All that I've heard of the Groups is interesting and sound." And in Heaton Hall, the Red Lion Inn and other hostelries in and around Stockbridge were gathered a "team" of 800 Oxford Groupers from all over the world, in whose...
...gained national renown as a maker of habitat models for the Anthropology Department, and went into private business in 1929, doing a series of historical tableaux as well as other archaeological and ethnological groups. Shortly before his death, the firm had completed a series of tree models of the School of Forestry which may come to be considered his finest work. He was famed in the craft for his uneanny ability to give an illusion of reality in his work...
...demand is already long overdue. It deserves the support of all men who have endured the humiliation of shuttling between Paine and Widener in search of music hopelessly divided between the two buildings; or who have failed even to obtain a glimpse of music whose habitat is known. For the Paine Hall "library" is often so overcrowded that no chairs or tables remain free, and the Janus of the door to the Widener stacks refuses free access to undergraduates...