Word: highland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third varsity when towheaded Captain Horace D. ("Hod") Shoemaker fell ill, was too young; and that the No. 5, a bald-headed fruit-farmer, Peter J. McManus, 30. who had been inspired to go to college because he had seen so many crews row past his farm at Highland on the Hudson...
Frank Billings, 76, of Chicago, only living man who was president of the A. M. A. for two years; born, Highland, Wis.; degree from Northwestern University 1881; president...
...February 23 Harvard's Costa Rica Expedition for plant collections, under the leadership of Dr. C. W. Dodge, Director of the Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics...