Word: squirreled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soft to Touch. Chinchillas are squirrel-sized rodents with wrinkly noses and turned-up tails. They are native to the high, dry, hot & cold Andes. To protect themselves from the fierce changes in temperature, chinchillas developed a remarkable platinum-grey coat with as many as 80 marvelously fine hairs springing from every follicle. So soft is chinchilla fur that a blindfolded person sometimes cannot tell when his hand is brushing it. The close-set hairs foil fleas, which cannot maneuver through them to blood-bearing strata below...
According to early returns, the U.S. was certain to have a hard winter. There was some corroborating data from the amateurs. Connecticut prognosticators said the stripes on caterpillars had been extremely long last summer-a sure sign of a tough winter ahead. Southern hunters announced that squirrel fur was the thickest in years. But more fastidious prophets refused to talk until mid-November, which is the best time for studying chicken bones and sweet-corn tassels. Dark bones and dark tassels mean a cold winter coming...
Peter Rabbit was followed, in the next few years, by two more Tales-The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Then stern Father Potter called a halt. "I have had such painful unpleasantness at home," wrote Beatrix to her publisher, "that I should be obliged if you will kindly say no more about a new book." When Publisher Norman Warne, who had fallen head over heels in love with his shy little author, responded with a proposal of marriage, Mr. Potter was horrified. He forbade the marriage on the grounds that no daughter of his should marry "trade...
Next to John Harvard, nature's greatest heritage to the Yard is the squirrel. Everyone loves the healthy, frolicking animals except a callous few who wantonly litter the steps of Widener, Sever, and Emerson with countless cigarette butts where uneducated squirrels are liable to find and sample the "filthy weed." Already small, Harvard squirrels are becoming alarmingly stunted as a result of this carelessness, and grey-haired mothers are frantic over the sudden shrinkage in squirrel stature. In response to a Crimson survey, one mother waspishly noted that the Yard was beginning to look like a trash heap and that...
Although a large force of men are employed each night to sweep up the cigarettes, the Yard presents a tempting nicotine dump for the greater part of the day. To squelch ugly rumors that elder squirrels are about to report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...