Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedford and Nantucket whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing. In 1837 he contributed two stuffed oyster-catchers, gawky birds with gaudy red beaks, black and white bodies. Another famed member was tall, smiling Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-73), Swiss-American naturalist...
...writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free Air. Then he borrowed $500 from his father, retired from other work to a lodging house in Washington, D. C. and wrote Main Street (1920). Its success was immediate; the title phrase and Sinclair Lewis became national bywords. Some 50,000 copies sold the first...
...line neatly as the starting gun boomed, stepped out in front and to windward of Shamrock V, from which a ton of lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable to shake off the defender, outraced, outmaneuvred, Shamrock V trailed nearly 6 min. behind at the first marker. At the end of the reach on the second leg she was 10 min. astern the more smartly handled Enterprise. Again the winner, Skipper Vanderbilt sailed his tall...
...play his match with John Van Ryn until the Doeg-Hunter contest was over, explaining that the applause (for Tilden) of the spectators might disturb Hunter. The committee hesitated. If Tilden were crossed too often he might leave the tournament, jeopardizing its financial success. But Dr. Philip B. Hawk, acting referee in the absence of President Louis B. Dailey of the U. S. L. T. A., telephoned his chief for authority to act alone. Then he asked Tilden how long it would take him to get dressed. "Fifteen minutes," said Tilden "Very well," said Dr. Hawk. "I'll give...
...went far to heighten public interest: the engagement of European crack airmen for an acrobatic "Olym-piad"; the revival of free-for-all speed racing in the Thompson Trophy Race. The latter event promised to resolve into a battle between Travelair Mystery S's, flown by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks and Lieut. Jimmy H. Doolittle, and the Marine Corps entry, a special Curtiss Hawk with Conqueror motor, piloted by Capt. Arthur H. Page, winner of the Curtiss Marine Trophy Race...