Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
...Buonaparte was made Consul for life, that thin edge of the wedge that was to secure for him the designation "Emperor of the French" and much legendary glory. It was the epoch immediately preceding that in which the spectre of the die-hard Austrian Chancellor, Prince Metternich, was to stalk eerily throughout Europe, scattering all but good, honest supporters of the Holy Alliance...
...something as old as Harvard but as alive today as ever. The founders planted in their new pledged college seeds of free-thinking, of independence which have proved so fruitful, and succeeding generations have added much. Harvard tradition has grown steadily, for its roots are firmly fixed and its stalk points always in the same direction. It is this deeper aspect that Dr. Eliot can present as can no other, and nothing is more worthy of his attention...