Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference tournament is really two tournaments, one a round-robin for teams, one a draw tournament for individual champions in singles and doubles. That North Carolina would win the team championship against the three other teams entered was a foregone conclusion. Their score was seven points to one for Duke, one for Virginia, none for V. M. I. Wilmer Hines and Lenoir Wright. No. 1 and No. 2 for North Carolina, won the doubles title together and then played each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines...
...champion, Dorothy Locke of the Salle d'Armes Vince, lost her bout in the semi-final strip against Amy von Hansa, a blonde from the German-American Athletic Club, but both of them qualified, with Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Norman Taylor Jr., for the final round-robin...
...includes workes of Morley, Lippmann, Cabell, Barrie, Coward, Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. A marked predilection for Shaw, both his established plays and his latest tale frequently leaving the shelves. Appreciation of the poetry of Millay, Wylie, Pound, and Eliot is hardly indicative of a dormant interest in literature. W. Robin Taylor '36. Francis J. Whitfield...
...interest you to know that two summers ago in Auburn, N. Y., I watched a robin attack a windowpane for over a period of two months. His efforts so exhausted him that he would lie on the ground for hours without moving and his beak was bloody from continually striking it against the pane. We tried pulling the shade clown and soaping the window to no effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March...
Last week the Kansas City cock robin was still pecking at his reflection, had been at it a month...