Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells with rich gusto and whimsy, so restrained that their bursts give pleasure like that of finding a wild bird's nest or bathing alone in the sea or fully remembering an old, old song...
...Rumson, N. J., where fish-hawks nest on telephone poles and the ocean waves roar loudly, four hard-galloping Californians swooped down on four Rockaway riders and captured the national junior* polo championship. Previously the Californians, who call them selves the Midwicks, had swooped upon a Meadowbrook team from Long Island. The Rockaway men had beaten an Army team in the other semi-final...
Those were the times of "Teddy" Roosevelt, President of the U. S. The Panama Canal was the greatest achievement of his foreign policy, a policy which stirred up a hornet's nest about his ears. His energetic action against Colombia was called "a conspiracy carefully planned and cleverly executed," and "one that cannot be justified in morals or in law." Others referred to it as "the blackest page in our history as a nation." Still others said of the President: "Did any civilized representative of superior power ever indulge in browbeating so pitiable and so pitiless? Can such cowardly...
...from its splendid showing against Syracuse on Thursday, the University lacrosse team travelled to Hamilton, New York, Saturday and received a 4 to 0 setback from a Colgate twelve, which in its top form it should have bested. The game, the last of the season before the Yale match nest Saturday, was the roughest in which the University has yet participated...
Although no definite solution has been reached as to the source of the fire, four theories were suggested by the firemen. The first, that of a defective electric light wire, was investigated, but but quickly rejected. A far more likely explanation lays the cause of the fire to a nest, built by either birds or mice, in which a match might have been used in the process of construction and then accidently ignited. Another fireman suggested that the workmen who had been repairing the southern side of the roof the evening before might have carelessly dropped a match...