Word: nests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are undoubtedly numbers in Harvard College who think that cooperation with the government a poor policy, but although noted as a liberal college, Harvard is not the nest of radicals and fools that some of the former letters and editorials would indicate...
...IBIS NEST: Mt. Auburn Street. Hottest place in town, and funny! If you want food there is always some in the cellar (unless that lease has run out). Entrance by the front door. While there ask to see the interesting animal show, but don't touch the nasty exhibits...
PEGASUS' PERCH: Next to the Ibis Nest. Just one of those places three flights up where you can still see the Village Crowd. Clientele rather stiff and formal...
...audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim vault overhead, as the planets glowed, as the Milky Way streamed in soft splendor. A lecturer identified stars and constellations with a flashlight beam. As the projector moved on its complex nest of gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse of infinity, Charles Hayden was moved as he had rarely been moved before. Back in his Manhattan office, Mr. Hayden heard of plans to supply New York City with a planetarium...
...Nest of Simple Folk's 398 sensitive, homegrown pages Author O'Faolain spreads with slow care the history of three generations of an Irish family, from 1854 to 1916. Since Ireland is going downhill, so does his family, but theirs is not a political story. Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better...