Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before tree specialists stopped using hard pesticides like DDT to combat the elm disease, insecticide killings of birds were apparently common in Cambridge. Charles F. Walcott, a retired physician and amateur ornithologist, recalls seeing three insect-eating species-the robin, hermit thrush, and flicker-in "typical DDT convulsions" on his property off Sparks Street...
...Round Robin...
...second game in the round robin competition the Crimson nine let up a bit and collected only nine runs as pitcher ??il Collins recorded the first of three Harvard shutouts. He struck out eight and walked only two. In this game, Varney hit the first of his five home runs...
...prepared for a Saturday final, not a round robin," he said yesterday afternoon. "Consequently, when I lost two early bouts. I had to fence from behind to catch up to the top fencers. I like fencing as a favorite, not as an underdog...
Keller, who had done miserably in the Easterns. changed drastically in the NCAA's. winning seven out of nine bouts on the first day, and 17 out of 23 in the round robin competition. Only Walter Krause of N.Y.U. won more bouts...