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Word: pond (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Nine Edges Lowell; Deacons Win | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perennial Mystery | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Forest Studies Silviculture | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Skater Turns Figures On Ice for St. Paul's Shows | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

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