Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home to roost--Harlow is perhaps the greatest defensive innovator in American football. His so-called "looping" defense, where his line shifted toward be sideline and his backs in the other direction, took prewar Army intelligence three years to analyze in scouting reports...
...magnetic compasses," i.e , some sensitivity to the earth's magnetism. Yeagley tested this notion by fastening small magnets to the wings of well-trained pigeons. Confused by their own magnetism, most of the birds never got home. Others, carrying equal wing weights of nonmagnetic copper, made the home roost without trouble. The experiment indicated that the earth's magnetism is a factor in pigeon navigation...
...pigeon's own magnetic compass could not, by itself, bring him back to his roost. Like a ship, a pigeon needs some other instrument too. Many places on the earth's surface have identical magnetic conditions. A pigeon guided by his compass alone might end up almost anywhere...
...manner of the Scopes trial of the '20s, great legal eagles are flown in and the press comes to roost. The trial drags on as the lawyers find in a few inches of local precipitation the world issue of Religion v. Science. Crops go unsown, the town goes almost broke before the preacher gets the atheist to admit, on penalty of being shown "negligent," that he himself prayed for the rain to stop. Clearly then, says the preacher, it was prayer against prayer, and the case has already been judged in the Highest Court...
...opener. On Saturday, the team will stride the Winchester Country Club's fairways against Brown and the Purple, and if all this pitching and putting results in a tie, Sunday will be used for a third and decisive match. Whichever squad ends up as king of the New England roost will proceed to the Eastern finals the following weekend...