Word: haye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Hay contains a diversified, functional collection, distributed more or less evenly among the main scholastic departments. In the John Carter Brown Library is housed a fine and widespread selection of Americana, ranging across the years from the reports of early explorers to contemporary comments and fiction. Although mainly a showcase, the Annmary Brown Memorial Library boasts one of the largest collections of incunabula (books published between 1474 and 1500) in the country...
This is in tribute to a proper hippopotamus called "Happy" who died three years ago today in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. He was a most excellent hippopotamus, living peacefully and heavily to the ripe age of 32 1/2, dining noisily on bales of hay and shovelfuls of beets. During the long afternoons, when things were slow, he would swim leisurely in his tank, coming out occasionally to dry himself in the sun. "Happy" took life easily, and when he yawned, it was a twenty-two inch event. He led an aristocratic existence if ever there...
...another animal in Boston is very dim. Happy passed from the municipal scene with hardly a ripple--quite a feat for a hippo. Now that he is gone, no one doubts he was a good hippopotamus, but nobody wants another. Several years ago, Mayor Hines, his eye on the hay bill, vetoed the idea of another hippo--not out of fondness for Happy--but because the breed ate too much. Only among his old friends, the Franklin Park keepers, is Happy still remembered as, "The Hippopotamus." As one keeper said, "We have no hippopotamus now. The Hippopotamus is dead...
...Allocated $1,000,000 to relieve hurricane damage in Maine, and persuaded railroads to cut by 50% freight rates on hay going into 15 drought-stricken states...
...trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...