Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shabby, kindly, skeptical old Ichiro Oga, a onetime Tokyo University professor known as "Professor Lotus," planted microphones by the blossoms in Shinobazu Pond to settle, once & for all, the explosive question. The microphones picked up no sound, and ever since the professor has scoffed at those who claim to have heard the lotus. But last week, like the others, Professor Lotus himself was listening again in the Tokyo swamps. He heard nothing. But there were those who did. Some told him the sound was like "kotsu." Some thought it was more like "quew," very softly spoken...
...Board on Geographical Names agreed to change the name of Warm Pond, near Willsboro, N.Y. to Highlands Forge Lake after local residents complained that it was very cold and a mile long...
...Fever. In his training camp at an amusement park overlooking a pond, Jersey Joe (real name: Arnold Cream) likes to sneak off to his room and play the phonograph, singing along with his favorite Ink Spots and Savannah Churchill records. At night he talks by telephone with each of his six kids. When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says...
Cooler Judgment. In Washington, the U.S. Board on Geographical Names was asked to change the name of Warm Pond, N.Y., to Highland Lake, on the reasonable ground that it is 1) not a pond, but a lake, 2) not warm, but cool...
...fastest time of the day, 4:32, with Dudley bringing up the rear. As the first two shells crossed the wire a cox-length apart, Funster rooters on shore were heard to sing mournfully a few strains of "Always A Bridesmaid." The team has decided to switch to Pond...