Word: urquhart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear to fly south in fall like migratory birds. Many authorities have doubted that insects have the brains and endurance to make a real migration to avoid the northern winter. The strategy of most insects is to sit out the winter as eggs or pupae. Last week Dr. Frederick Urquhart, director of Toronto's zoology museum, told about a 19-year study that tends to prove that Monarchs do migrate...
...Urquhart, then a young zoologist on the museum's staff, began trying to label Monarch butterflies to find out how far they fly. He soon ran into tagging trouble. A label that sticks firmly to a Monarch's wing is apt to make it aerodynamically unstable...
HAROLD W. URQUHART EDITOR...
Brown, which hung up all of its wins against one loss and one tie against inter-collegiate competition before the exam period recess, has lost four of its varsity skaters because they failed exams. Defenseman Pat Goggin and wing Ron Urquhart, both sophomores, flunked out of college, and center Leo Setian and veteran defenseman Bob Maley have been declared ineligible because of academic failures. Since the departure of these men, the Bruins have played and lost their only game, 6 to 4, to Yale...
British businessmen in Communist China, said Sir Robert Urquhart, Britain's consul general in Shanghai, in a recent speech, "were happy to record instance after instance of just and honest treatment in the conduct of day-to-day affairs." Sir Robert conceded that the Communists had made some "mistakes," but he was quick to add that these "will be readily excused...