Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only three birds were left. After Dec. 8, 1928, there was only one heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary, he was seldom seen far from the scrub oaks where he "used," but occasionally observers saw him perform his kind's famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer Professor Alfred Otto Gross of Bowdoin College read his obituary...
...leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from 20% to 40% of the funds finally collected" from the public. That leader's "entire claim to fame, perhaps, rests on his once having made a trip to the Arctic as mate of a whaler." But he poses with a foot on a dead polar bear and gets the pictures in rotogravure sections of newspapers. During the expedition "strange rumors of dissension in the camp begin to percolate through the public consciousness, but are promptly quashed. . . ." Upon its return, "each member of the party gets...
...injured ankle and the other Harvard jumpers cannot measure up to I.C.4A competition. At the last moment Dean, who was entered in the shot put, was stricken from the list to make way for Bennett in the pole vault. Pescosolido had only a slight edge over his running mate, Porter, in the dash selections...
Edward B. Hines of Baltimore has been appointed coach of the Freshmen lacrosse team at Harvard. Hines, who is attending the Harvard Business School, played at St. John's College for four years and also at Baltimore Polytechnic. At St. John's and Baltimore Polytechnic he was a team mate of Robert B. Pool, assistant lacrosse coach...
...Roosevelt candidacy for President was so far advanced last week that its managers were already discussing swaps and trades to put their man over. There was a tentative casting about for a vice presidential running mate. Perhaps it would be Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Or then it might be Governor George White of Ohio who would get his State's 52 votes on the first ballot. Opponents of Governor Roosevelt's nomination were making no visible progress uniting on one of the other candidates in the field. And a full field it was, with a great assortment...