Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from Albany, Ga. last week. They knew its two hotels would be crammed to the cashier's cot, its storekeepers loath to talk about anything but dogs. For Albany (pronounced All-Benny), a thriving little city of 19,000, is the hub of some of the best quail-hunting grounds in the world. There last week was held a bird-dog trial as sacred to Albany as the Derby is to Louisville...
...York City has only one mayor, and a little fellow at that. Sandy Springs, S. C. has two-as tall as tamaracks and as quick after quail as anybody in Anderson County. W. K. Moore is 6 ft. 5 in., and wears a Southern statesman's hat. Sam Smith weighs 275 pounds, towers almost as high...
Chosen to drag the industry out of the woods was a big, burly, hardheaded, quail-hunting Valdosta judge named Harley Langdale. No. 1 U. S. turpentiner, he and his associates grossed better than $500,000 last year from 70,000 owned, 300,000 leased acres of Southern pine. As president and manager of A. T. F. A. he has: 1) borrowed $21,500,000 (1938-39) to tide member producers (over 90% of production) over the industry's rehabilitation; 2) encouraged the building of central stills; 3) produced a standard product, to be marketed in uniform turpentine cans bearing...
...Student Council's brilliant 1939 Report on Education went to the root of the matter, and suggested drastic remedies. Teachers and administrators may quail at the thought of organizing and staffing five broad "introductory area courses" such as the Council has suggested. And it may run against the grain to make such courses compulsory for all. But no one can ignore the glaring fissure in Harvard's educational structure; such measures as the Board of Freshman Advisers has taken may bridge the gap temporarily, but they will never close...