Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is not relay meet with M. I. T. this year; the team will have its first test in the K. of C. meet on January 22, when the University and Freshman quartets will face Hole Cross...
...likely an hour's real work. Out of this forest you may pass into a section where a storm has wreaked navoc. All the big trees are down, and a new forest, head high, is growing up so thick that (as has been said) you have to cut a hole for your cuttings before you can do any cutting! In this small stuff you may take an hour to clear a hundred feet. You may run into a section that has been logged, where you have a small new growth of cherry birch, and maple from half an inch...
...head, which enable it to shut its nostrils and remain submerged for some time, like moose, whales, beavers; and bearing its young alive (viviparous) instead of laying eggs (oviparous). Like its cousins it is at home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel
Last week the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard had the honor of publishing a scientific story of considerable interest and special appropriateness for that oldtime fishing centre. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish, biologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries station at Woods Hole, Mass., in working over specimens and data brought back by her husband, Dr. Charles J. Fish, from his trip last year to the Sargasso Sea, Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson River, had identified certain fish eggs dredged from the Challenger Bank near Bermuda as eggs of the common American eel. Science had never seen such...
Workers will get from $30 weekly for basting skirts to $55 for making coats, reefers or dresses. Buttonhole makers will get a cent and a half per hole...