Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a dispatch received from Paul "Vermont" Tector '40, of Princeton, who saw Time magazine's reprint of the story on the Harvard Union ice-cream eating record, the title of David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41, as ice-cream champion of the Ivy circuit is contested. For Mitchell, who ate 18 dishes after a full meal and ran a cross country race the next day, yesterday received the following telegram...
...divulge the texts. It was with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China under rights clearly recognized by treaty...
Where your Vermont meets my Connecticut...
...John R. McDaniel, Savannah, Missouri, Harold Bengloff, New York; Robert S. Hormell, Brunswick, Maine, Edward T. Haslam, Council Grove, Kansas; Lemuel Bowden, Jr., Norfolk, Virginia; John L. Wilson, Sturgis, Kentucky; Arthur L. Abrams, Roxbury; John Maier, Royersford, Pennsylvania; Edward S. Miller, Sioux City, Iowa; Sinclair T. Allen Jr., Proctor, Vermont; Earle H. Webster, Bridgewater...
Answer to the keeper problem was a young ornithologist named Maurice Broun, who still works during the off season at "Long Trail," Vermont. He and his wife popped down to Hawk Mountain, immediately posted "No Hunting" signs all around. His deputy sheriff kept off indignant gunners, and Ornithologist Broun set about making Hawk Mountain an attractive observation point. His routine: in season, every day from 7:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. to stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that...