Word: screeching
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...appears to be the foremost topic of the day on the Harvard campus. Harvard bemoans the fact that the followers of John Harvard have no bulldog, tiger, mule. goat, or bear to help the Crimson flash in triumph on the athletic field, and suggests that any sort of a screech, howl, back, growl, bray, bleat, or crow would suffice...
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...accustomed to doubting TIME?it has for me an absolute value in spite of Einstein. But one of your news items caused me to raise my eyebrows, open my mouth and give forth a faint screech. The item reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine...
...with Prof. Hart, visiting Harvard clubs over the country and attending his lectures, I feel that I too can clasp the hand of the Harvard man and join in the Harvard yell. My college yell, evolved amid the clang of the hammer, the buzz of the wheel, and the screech of the whistle has been Rah, Rah, Rah, Work...
...Harvard Natural History Society. Fur Seals and Seal Islands in Behring Sea. Mr. L. J. Cole.--History of Vivisection. Mr. H. S. Bernstein.--A Young Screech Owl in Captivity. Mr. P. T. Coolidge. Training-Table Room of the Union...