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Word: owl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action for and against the Yardwelling owl continued yesterday, while a now attempt to capture the much-discussed bird failed to materialize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

David Drake '52 held a meeting in his room last night to get signatures on a petition favoring the owl. The petition asks the Student Council to give official approval to the presence of the owl in the Yard, in view of the interest and attraction caused by the owl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

Drake plans no permanent club to protect the owl; his Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Owl will last only until he obtains at least 100 names for his petition. The five-man society sent a letter of approval to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology, thanking him for his donial of the harm done by the owl. (Griscom previously had said the owl didn't touch Yard squirrels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...group of Lowell House students and tutors have formed a breakfast discussion group to study the owl problem. They seek the preservation of the Yard bird, and threaten to "choke anyone who harms the owl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

Even when an audience walks out on them, '52 politicians with Freshman Smoker Committee ambitions don't mind promising a partridge for every owl. After a jazz band concert and other shenanigans in the Union dining hall last night, several office hopefuls called for a look at the books, a look at the record, and the New Look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neither Owls, Spies, Jazz, Nor Freshman Smokers . . . | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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