Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his boat hit a log and capsized in the Snake River rapids of Wyoming, Van Hetlin considered himself lucky to escape with a bruised body and rock-slashed face...
...Snake Eyes. In Rotan, Texas, after he had killed a rattlesnake behind the barn, Coe Hawkings went out in the dark and cut off the rattles for a souvenir, next morning noticed that the snake he had killed still had its rattles...
Three hours after he got the news, Dr. Soule wrote a note to his family (his two daughters were abroad), begging forgiveness for the disgrace he had brought. Then, after asking his wife what time dinner would be, he went down to the basement, filled a hypodermic with snake venom and gave himself eight injections. When his wife came to call him for dinner, she found him lying on the floor. "Don't call a doctor," he whispered, "there's no antidote to this poison." In a few minutes, he was dead...
...typical chapter is Miss Carson's biography of the surface waters. Here is the snake-mackerel, up from the depths, first seen in living form by the Kon-Tiki expedition; here the uncountable creatures called plankton, a community of minute animals and plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which...
...Shoe, one sign of success is to get into a fraternity-preferably such "Row Fraternities" as Zeta Psi, the Fence Club, or Delta Kappa Epsilon. Far above these stand Yale's six senior societies-Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Wolf's Head, and Elihu-whose new members are picked each year when the junior class lines up on Tap Day in Branford College Court, waiting for the slap on the back from some senior member...