Word: owl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumored yesterday that a newly-planned attempt on the life of the owl would succeed, but no new attack had occurred by midnight...
Campaigns for Freshman Smoker positions, already packed with more stunts and gags than any in recent years, yesterday produced a cold-blooded "murder," a baby-kissing spree, a mammoth aerial billboard, and another owl-hunting expedition...
Fashionably clad in coonskins and wielding squash racquets and baseball bats, Roger Hunt and Lansing Lamont, the baby-kissers, chased the owl unsuccessfully late Thursday evening...
...began Mr. Mathiessen. He made references to her editing the literary magazine "Dial" and then said something about how gratified he was to see so many people present and that he was certain Miss Moore's announced appearance had been responsible for "our recent inhabitant of the Yard, the owl." He said he only regretted that it wasn't a jerboa...
...read a poem called "A Face," from a slip of paper she had, and followed that with one called "Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting." Then she opened a leather bound book and read "The Wood Weasel" ("I'm sorry it isn't an owl") and then her wartime poem "In Distrust of Merits" "And I don't think any better of it now than when I wrote it." Then she sat down...