Word: lair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toynbee, migrated to the moist Sudan, where their descendants probably survive as the primitive tribes of Shilluk and Dinka. But others, responding to the challenge of desiccation, resolved to change their lives completely. The valley of the Nile was then an all but inaccessible jungle of rank reeds, the lair of hippopotamuses and crocodiles. To live at all under such conditions required an effort beyond any that such men had ever made. Through the centuries, they drained the swamps, felled the reeds, diked the Nile, laid out fields. This response, Toynbee believes, was the genesis of Egyptian civilization-a response...
...biggest prize in Eastern wrestling comes up today and tomorrow when this section's 15 top wrestling teams get together for the Intercollegiate Championships. With the Bulldog playing host in his Payne-Whitney gymnasium lair in New Haven, an expected total of 120 entries from the members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association will decide among themselves which eight men are the best...
General Cooke, a hardened soldier himself, started with much the same idea ("I didn't know enough about psychoneurosis to find the word in a dictionary"). But his assignment from General Marshall was to "seek the neurosis in its lair"-and he found it among some of the bravest troops. In an eminently readable book (All But Me and Thee; Infantry Journal Press; $2.75), he now tells what he reported to General Marshall...
Coach James MacDonald ran his Varsity soccer team through a short scrimmage at the Business School field yesterday in the final practice of the week before the game with Dartmouth at Hanover this Saturday. Both the Varsity and Freshman teams leave for the lair of the big Green by bus at 4 o'clock today...
...innocent government major threaded his way to crafts Physics Laboratory to beard the scientific mind in its lair, yesterday. Slide rules glowered at him and vacuum pumps threatened him with exhaustion. Quietly he slipped into the office of Howard H. Taken, keeper of the University's mathematical mechanical brain, said by many to feed on classics concentrators, and sat down to chew his nails...