Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third time in 21 years Peiping's citizens last week prepared to receive an approaching conqueror. At first their preparations were scarcely perceptible. Skaters still weaved across Nan Hai Lake, near the Forbidden City. In the adjoining park, old gentlemen taking their caged songsters for an airing paused to compare birds. The lovely city (its name means "Northern Peace") expected, even looked forward to a quick, peaceful turnover...
This fall the footprints of a big unknown bird were found in the wild mountainous country near Lake Te Anau on South Island. Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, a physician from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...
After photographing the birds carefully, Dr. Orbell let them go and returned to civilization in a state of ornithological ecstasy. If the Lake Te Anau country could conceal for 50 years a bird as big as a takahe, enthusiasts feel that it may have moas too, perhaps even giant moas twelve feet tall...
Bennett went to work in the company full-time after serving as a lieutenant in the Army in World War I and graduating from the University of Utah ('19). He has run the company since 1938. His fingers are in a dozen other Salt Lake pies. He is a director of the Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co., the Utah Home Fire Insurance Co., Utah Oil Refining Co., and vice president of the Clayton Investment Co. He operates a jewelry store in Logan, Utah, and with two brothers runs a Ford agency. He is a Mormon...
Perfectionist. In Salt Lake City, the girl who described herself in a want ad as the "proverbial dumb blonde" stenographer, forgot to list her name or phone number...