Word: walden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critical time in her transatlantic trip, then flew alone and unaided from Paris to London, demonstrated his ability last week at Curtiss Field in quest of a pilot's license. He landed at a mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward...
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...Yale Freshman crew members were permitted to go to the Gales Ferry training camp on Sunday and to take their final examinations there. After the 1929 discipline committee had recommended to Dean P. T. Walden that the restrictions as of June, 1926, which provided that the 1930 Freshman crew take the final examinations in New Haven be lifted...
...While at Walden, Thoreau proved that individual men may overcome wild creature's instinctive fear of humanity. Birds and beasts showed no terror of him and it has been said by enthusiasts that the very fish of the stream would swim unafraid between his fingers...
...settlers were reminded of Paul Bunyan's "minktums" and "tigermonks." Natural scientists suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long...