Word: nest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eggs were found when men from the Fire Station across the road were putting up an antenna for a new radio set. Two were reposing in an ancient nest, another lay broken on a balustrade below, all being 211 feet above the pavement. Ornithology may be permanently expanded as a science by the discovery...
...more spectacular has been the jump in shares of British shipyards, recently down & out, now all set to build warboats. The disgusted Daily Herald, after first severely warning its Labor readers that they will probably lose their shirts if they jump into the market now, tantalizingly explained that a nest egg of $2,500 invested one year ago in three ship-building and two aircraft stocks would today have become a tidy little fortune...
Still, may the Harvard Athletic Association in future years make enough money itself to deal with band traveling expenses! But that is on the knees of the gods, another egg in the nest of Recovery...
...Left and Right fierce anti-Fascist and pro-Fascist epithets flew. Deputies rushed up from the provinces and buzzed feverishly in the lobbies of their Chamber, though it was not in session and Premier Pierre Laval would rather have butted his hard head into a hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which has no connection with...
...Wales where Milford Haven affords the refuge of a strongly fortified harbor extending some ten miles inland. Forehanded as usual, the Admiralty announced that it has already bought lands at Milford Haven and is ready to launch a $2,000,000 program for making it a super-safe naval nest equipped with every means of repelling bombers...