Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented. One reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash, but when bond prices follow the same destructive course, there is reason for the gravest apprehension...
Last year Albert Moore Reese, zoologist at West Virginia State University, stopped thinking so much about alligators, on which he is an authority, and turned his attention to owls. His interest began when citizens of Morgantown, W. Va. complained about being attacked by owls. Dr. Reese inquired hither & yon, asked people who had had owl encounters to tell him all about their experiences. From all over the U. S. came letters. Last fortnight he published some of his data in Science (weekly...
...their beaks before darting away. The majority of victims, however, had actually been struck with beak or claws. Frequently the skin was painfully lacerated. One correspondent wrote that he knew a lumberjack who had suffered from a clawed neck for several months. In Louisiana, a Negro complained that an owl had gouged his eye out. The birds in one U. S. town developed a peculiar antipathy for policemen, made frequent passes at their blue-capped heads...
Varied were the reasons advanced. Many people noted a nest in the neighborhood, agreed that the attacking owl probably was protecting fledglings. Others suggested that owls may mistake the hairy human head for a fat, slow-moving...
HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Harding, l.e. r.e., Wilson Upton, r.t. r.t., Rae Bancroft, r.g. r.g., Peterson Ticknor, c. c., Thompson Richards, r.g. l.g., Ball Kuehn, r.t. l.t., Geesman Ogden, r.e. l.e., Blumenstock Wood, q.b. q.b., White Batchelder, l.h.b. r.h.b., Knowlton Devens, r.h.b. l.h.b., Owl Schereschewsky, f.b. f.b., Simonson...