Word: pond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fish in a Small Pond...
While its proximity to a neighborhood school may not satisfy those accustomed to the truly rural, the 80-acre Audubon Sanctuary complete with garden, fields, woods and pond makes a welcome escape for days when the mercury tops...
...second "My First Year" piece that I have endeavored to complete. A year ago at this time, as a 20 year-old rising junior, I composed an essay concerning the somewhat popular notion that when one comes to Harvard, he or she becomes a small fish in a big pond, as opposed to high school, when the situation was more akin to the individual existing as a big fish in a small pond...
...cheer surrounding his birthday, there seemed only the vaguest concession to mortality from the former President. When he was studying a landing site for his parachute jump near the Bush presidential library grounds at Texas A&M, he suddenly pointed to a small grove of trees near a pond. "That's where Barbara and I will be buried," he said. But his voice had its usual verve, as if to say that even that would be an adventure...
...given by the Southern New England Forest Consortium and the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Planning Association. In presenting the award, the director of the Consortium said "Over the past 20 years this owner has lovingly developed over 300 acres of land abutting the ocean and the Trustom Pond Wildlife Refuge...