Word: newt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made 16 first downs to Columbia's six. But Stanford made eight fumbles and Columbia recovered four of them. The touchdown came in the second period, when Columbia's Halfback Al Barabas cut around Stanford's right end and loped across the line standing up. Center Newt Wilder kicked the extra point. From then on Columbia's job was to dig into the slime and hold against Stanford's inexhaustible reserves. Columbia not only held, but turned Stanford back from the 1-yd. line where Halfback Ed Brominski scooped up a Stanford fumble...
Under the University Museum the same department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish and a few frogs...
Overnight the States newshawks moved their typewriters into the Times-Picayune building, reported for duty at 7 a. m., beat a 9:15 deadline by three minutes. With NewT Orleans' four papers now squarely lined up in two opposing camps, the first hostile act was not long forthcoming. The States maintained its price of 3?. (The Times-Picayune costs 5?.) The Item, proLong evening paper, reduced the price of its "Blue Streak" late afternoon sports final to a penny...
Overnight the States newshawks moved their typewriters into the Times-Picayune building, reported for duty at 7 a. m., beat a 9:15 deadline by three minutes. With NewT Orleans' four papers now squarely lined up in two opposing camps, the first hostile act was not long forthcoming. The States maintained its price of 3?. (The Times-Picayune costs 5?.) The Item, proLong evening paper, reduced the price of its "Blue Streak" late afternoon sports final to a penny...
...York, however, Seabury investigators began looking for a more realistic reason. They found that last year Mayor Walker put through the municipal government a resolution remitting $415,499 in back taxes for seven years to a French government subsidiary which in 1918 had purchased 19 acres on Newt own creek for war munition storage. This tax remission opened the way to a profitable sale of the land by France...