Word: perched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glittering aluminum Ceres took her place on the city's skyline, poising her twinkling magnificence on top of Chicago's tallest office pylon, the new 44-story, 609 ft. Board of Trade building.* Designed by Sculptor John H. Storrs, Ceres of Chicago went up to her perch in 40 pieces and was hurriedly assembled, a bit late for the Boards opening day ceremonies...
Opening his bag he swished out a shower of yellow corn. Cawing, hopping, flapping and gobbling, the Royal Rooks celebrated. Replete at last, they waddled off toward benches on Tower Green, flopped up with difficulty to perch on top rails, croaked contentedly, and with their large, dark, watery eyes ogled human bench-roosters...
...killing sparrows, the hunters select a large roomy barn where they know these pestiferous birds spend the night. They climb up among the rafters, choosing a perch where they can have full use of their arms. Then lights are flashed and as the rudely-awakened, bewildered birds flutter blindly about they are struck down with brooms and clubs...
Unique was Patriarch Hadley's place in his college. Son of a Yale professor, he was graduated with the class of 1876. Even as an undergraduate the omnivorous character of his brain, later to become a legend, commanded amused respect. Upperclassmen liked to perch his little body on a soap box and make him deliver ponderous schoolboy philippics. Along with his A.B. degree (with highest honors), he won prizes for proficiency in the classics, astronomy, English composition. Socially also he reaped Yale's richest rewards...
...orchestra of the crowded Madrid theatre which madly cheered Don Jose, sat Spain's reputed richest man, Count Romanones, quiet, alert, ready to jump with his millions to the side on which Victory should perch...