Word: nest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done. The land had been cleared, tilled, peopled; it had been mechanized and industrialized. Silent, sullen breadlines had replaced the noise of stage-coaches and saloons; the shouts of congressional orators had given way to the quiet buzz of committee rooms. The pioneers and their heroics were laid to nest.: America had been made and it was being remade...
...place to land for an excursion sometime soon when the hand of man has more fully nurtured its interior. But ahoy! Another smaller island slips over the horizon--a different island, built of smaller reddish stones, with a sign which labels it Hemenway Gym. It has a crow's nest on top, and it, too, is yet unfinished by man's hand in the interior. Vag makes a mental note that it will make a fine camping ground for a winter afternoon and marks it on his chart. Then, night having fallen, and the navigation hazards consequently having increased...
...wake of the Panic of 1857, "that nest of gamblers the Brokers' Board" (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new president. The jittery board finally picked the one man they thought could steer them out of trouble-Henry George Stebbins, a skilled yachtsman who later became commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Under President Stebbins the New York Stock Exchange weathered the Panic, headed for the dazzling days of the Civil War boom...
Dend from a broken neek apparently caused by flying into Widener Library, a Red Phalarope, a rare sea bird whose male sits on the nest and cares for the young birds, was picked up Tuesday afternoon in front of Wigglesworth Hall. This is two weeks earlier than the Phalarope has ever before been found in Massachusetts, according to James L. Peters, Curator of birds in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, who identified the bird...
...narrow escapes, magnificent scenery, bloody battles and hard riding. In it the smiling, courageous, gentle Colonel Nathaniel Franklin of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is forever leaping upon his high-spirited horse and thundering down the road-sometimes to save a Confederate lady in distress, sometimes to clean up a nest of irregulars, and sometimes, apparently, just for a little thundering...