Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nomad pygmies of South-West Africa, who are fleet as deer, roam unchecked over the vast deserts bordering on Bechuanaland. They are not above hunting down domesticated cattle and playing tag with avenging white policemen. Game Warden Dr. P. J. Schoeman has long thought the energetic Bushmen ought to have their own private reserve. But first he needed to win his wards some popular support...
...Warden Schoeman is worried that the little visitors may like their lazy life in Cape Town so much that they will not want to go back to Okavango. But he feels sure that sooner or later they will realize a home in the bush is worth two automobiles in Cape Town. Eventually, inquisitive scientists will have to track them down to their desert home...
...correspondents and from contributors in every diocese. The editors, who hold their weekly staff conference over long-distance telephone, are three clergymen: W. Leigh Ribble, a Richmond rector and former editor of the Southern Churchman, Chad Walsh, associate professor of English at Wisconsin's Beloit College, Theodore Wedel, warden of Washington Cathedral's College of Preachers...
...feed the beasts. Mwanga thought the crocodiles embodied the spirits of his ancestors, but after his death an enlightened colonial government put the beasts on a diet of fish. Later, the government cleaned them out of the lake altogether-or thought it did. But last week, an alert game warden discovered one little four-foot croc still in residence. Ah, said the natives, old Mwanga himself. A hunt began, and the little croc vanished...
Last week, without fanfare or controversy, Epstein was about to place one of his religious works in a church. The work: an ungainly but powerful white stone figure of Lazarus. The church: the 14th century Gothic chapel at New College, Oxford. The deal was closed when New College Warden Alic Halford Smith, in Epstein's studio to sit for a portrait bust, admired the Lazarus, decided to buy it on the spot. No financial details were disclosed, except that a "substantial" check was sent to the artist. Back at Oxford, New College officials were so pleased that they planned...