Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close observation Beebe (who will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...
...works show three techniques: charcoal and stump, pen and ink, and pencil and crayon. The set illustrates his development from 1924 until...
...goes through a great deal of trouble in the process. The 40 or 50 of these machines which are distributed throughout a number of quick-eat restaurants surrounding the Square, represent 20 years of constant improvement. They do everything from measuring coins to adding up numbers which would stump a math major; through these electrical gymnastics they have been attracting ever-increasing numbers of students to what may eventually become Harvard's major indoor sport...
...kind of helpmeet ambitious politicians pray for. An attractive mother of two, and one of Canada's best-dressed women, she is as handy before a microphone as she is before the kitchen range. Last week when her husband, new Progressive Conservative Leader George Drew, set out to stump for himself and his party, Fiorenza, as usual, went along. They tackled Quebec first, a province where the party is weak and where a lot of selling needs to be done. Fiorenza pitched...
Fundamentally, this Wintergreen, son of a Lower East Side song writer and a Pittsburgh playwright, was "A Man's Man," and he was said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...