Word: pond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year there is no telling. The Student Union, most violent of the isolationist groups, has always been accused of Communistic leanings, but whether it will adopt the Daily Worker switch remains to be seen.HARVARD SOLDIER, 1916 VERSION, heaves a hand grenade out of the trench near Fresh Pond...
...meanwhile expanded from an initial 884 to 1227 men, and engaged in extensive training. The high point of the year came when the soldiers constructed a series of trenches near Fresh Pond and participated in practice warfare. After taking the course here most of the members proceeded to a regular officers' training camp...
...bullfrog has protruding eyes and makes a loud, guttural noise, as if he owned the frog pond. He feeds on any living animal matter which he can swallow, and is in turn devoured by creatures stronger than he, such as snakes, fishes, herons, alligators, etc.-Encyclopaedia Britannica and other sources...
...Nazis. The hurrying enemy surrounded and captured some 10,000 of these bedraggled men before the British were able to get them off. Crete was lost. It would be hard now to hold Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. The Mediterranean was no longer Admiral Cunningham's Pond. And yet the British were apparently not downhearted. They were confident that Crete was the last place where Germany would have undisputed air superiority. An R.A.F. spokesman in Cairo said: "There is no chance for further German operations like those in Crete." But there still was Cyprus...
...gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island. Thousands of contemporary Londoners had their first childhood outings there, listening to holy choirs, brass bands, evangelists; watching cricket, soccer, motorbike races; running through the gardens, boating on the pond. In World War I the grounds and building incongruously became H.M.S. Crystal Palace-i.e. a "training ship" for naval reservists...