Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penelope retired to her burrow and did not appear again for six days. She ate an enormous meal and popped back again. The curators hovered around, smiling at one another like fond godfathers. All the signs pointed to platypus eggs, perhaps even hairless platypus infants wriggling in the nest...
...they decided that they should wait no longer. Last week, working carefully with small trowels under the eyes of 50 newspaper reporters and photographers, they dug into the dirt to bare Penelope's secret. They found a network of burrows; they found Penelope. But they found no leafy nest -and no platykittens...
...feet said go, and I went"). His quiet war pictures did not bring the spectator to the midst of battle, as recent war photos have, but they made a deep, clear, unforgettable record.* In 1880 the New York Daily Graphic ran a shot of "Shantytown" (the squatters' nest that later became the fashionable Upper East Side), in halftone reproduction. News photography soon became a profession, and men who learned to seize the exact moment when events show dramatically clear often made great pictures. Muckraking Journalist Jacob A. Riis stirred the U.S. with his stones and photographs of New York...
...will come, my bird, Bonita? Come! For I, by steep and stone, Have built such nest for you, Juanita, As not eagle bird hath known...
...York's first daytime high schools had been completed for only three years when he finished grammar school in 1900. He went to Morris High School. He went on to Columbia University's Teachers College, the academic nest in which John Dewey hatched his theories of progressive education (theories which the New York school system began adopting after World War I and from which Middle-of-the-Roader Jansen still cautiously borrows today). He went back to the public schools as a teacher, married a fellow teacher - a vivacious physical education instructor named Frances Allan...