Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew against a window of the Columbia chemical laboratory. It was rescued by Professor Arthur Warren Hixson, who identified it, took it home, let it tamp for worms in his garden until it had recovered strength to fly on. Professor Hixson has seen many another migratory bird at Columbia (hawk, merganser, sandpiper), believes they are attracted by the green of the campus, get lost among the buildings...
...Hoover Administration. When Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington, "Bernie" Baruch was slated to be a trusted White House economic observer. "I am a speculator." he said once, "and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe." In June 1933, the hawk-eyed financier was around Washington so conspicuously that a friend addressed a telegram to him as "Unofficial President of the U. S." After that his visits to the White House became few and far between...
...Reids invited her to take charge of the Herald Tribune magazine. The magazine is said to be a money-loser at present, but beyond doubt it pulls substantial circulation. Like Helen Reid, "Missy" Meloney is small and indomitable. She is warm, friendly, with arge brown eyes and a hawk nose...
...will watch the hawk with an indifferent...
...sooner had the office been opened in the morning than a frenzied call was received from one of Boston's super news-hawks, the always alert type, eager for a raise in pay because he had found a good story. This young worthy in a harassed tone cried out that he had been calling the Botanical Garden, the Biological Institute, and the Arnold Arboretum, trying to find out what new construction was going on at the Herbarium. He pointed out that they all denied the construction of any "large fire-proof building" to preserve classified specimens, and in the same...