Word: owl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Owl turned shy for the first time in his three week visitation when Life Magazine photographer Martha Holmes tried to take his portrait yesterday afternoon...
Miss Holmes spared no efforts, but she failed to take into account the unpredictability and abnormal sagacity that has endeared the owl to students since he first began to prey on the College's pigeons. She got no pictures yesterday. She stood high on the platform of a Cambridge Electric Company streetlamp repair truck behind University Hall and focussed her telephoto camera on the tree where the owl was sitting, hidden behind leafless branches...
...shame to chase an owl around on Harvard Yard not to speak of the sacrilege to kill it? The owl has been the incarnation of wisdom since ages and the saying: "to carry owls to Athens" is one of the classical phrases for anything in the line of teaching Americans democracy...
When the SPCA said that disposing of the owl was against God's law, I presume they had in mind Isiah...
...screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." But do we have a "screech owl?" Vasco McCoy...