Word: otters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three generations of western Iowa farmers learned reading, writing and arithmetic at Otter Township's one-room Concord School. Next month, when schools all over Iowa reopen, Concord (which had only four pupils last term) will be closed. So will 1,700 other small Iowa schools, wiped out since 1941-and few Iowans will be sorry...
Snake meat was good for rheumatism, otter's liver for tuberculosis. For sore eyes, a fine salve could be made from bears' gall bladders. If dubious of such tried-&-true remedies, the ailing one shuffled down the street to get a heavenly diagnosis from an astrologer, or spiritual advice from one of the local fortune tellers. There was not much point, said the Chinese, in a foreign doctor coming to Changsha to open a foreign-style hospital...
...changed 48-year-old Bill McGovern much, except to restock his cornucopia of anecdotes. Starchy Admiral King got indigestion every time Commander McGovern entered the room, his Byronic profile rising proudly above a pair of dandruff-laden shoulders, his uniform scarred with gravy. (In civilian life, McGovern modeled an otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says he: "I lived in constant fear...
...third in Canada's history. The others: Sir Arthur William Currie, Sir William Dillon Otter, both of World...
...Dunn, 57, a big (235 lb.), easygoing citizen of Pelican Rapids (pop. 1,560), is a longtime member of Minnesota's Republican Old Guard. In his home province of Otter Tail County he farms 240 acres and runs a $100,000 fishing resort he built mostly with his own hands. In the state legislature he has risen in 18 years to be majority floor leader and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. So long as silo-tall Harold Stassen was on the scene in person, Dunn was a secondary figure. But when Stassen went...