Word: perching
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...Saturday afternoon a Cambridge policeman discovered a raccoon sitting on the top of a tree in the Yard. Somewhat disturbed by the crowd which soon collected under his perch, the raccoon removed itself in haste to the top of the Hemenway gymnasium, where for a time it appeared quite safe...
...noon last Monday - Marathon Day - the crowds had begun to form along Boston's Exeter Street, to perch on window ledges. After lunch the windows filled up and eyes turned down the street to catch the first glimpse of what would presently appear - a runner, his face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson...
Died. Mary Desti, 59, friend and biographer of the late great Dancer Isadora Duncan, mother of Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) who is the son of her first husband, Solomon Sturges of Chicago (she divorced him, married Capt. Howard Perch, from whom she later separated); of superabundance of white corpuscles in the blood, a rare disease which she contracted soon after the death of Dancer Duncan in Nice in 1927; in Manhattan...
...tries to save the Mississippi's stranded fish before the summer sun dries up the pools. Hauling up load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish are toughest...
...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...