Word: pond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inter-House Athletic Council reversed itself last week and decided to hold a golf competition after all. So yesterday Cambridge's Fresh Pond Gold Course was invaded by four-man teams from all the Houses. They are playing an elimination tournament to determine the House links crown...
...Paris, sidewalk cafés were lined with customers sipping aperitifs or spooning sweetened ices; children sailed toy boats in the stone-rimmed pond of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Italy, peasant women remarked on the number of hens laying two eggs a day; perhaps it was the warm weather. And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining...
...proved with a few squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...
Geographically, the Forest consists of three separate treats completely, surrounding tiny Petersham 900 adres are in a wild-life sanctuary which includes large Harvard Pond and a marsh abounding in aquatic life. This tract is posted for deer, grouse, and pheasants...
Barbara started skating when she was four years old. Someone strapped old-fashioned double runners to her booted feet and showed her out on the surface of a local pond. Unable to do more than skid and stagger, she wept, Kicked off the blades, and gave up skating...