Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birds and animals had a hard time of it. Long Island gulls and ducks, their shoreline food sources cut off by piled-up ice, took to swiping baby trout from the running-water ponds of the state's fish hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor. In Wisconsin, woodsmen swore that snowshoe hares limited their traveling to man-made paths...
...appreciation of the "training and inspiration" that he received here as an undergraduate, famous Detroit art collector John S. Newberry, Jr. '33 is loaning part of his collection of drawings and water colors to the Fogg Museum. The exhibit will open on February 12 in Galleries II and III at the Museum and will continue throughout the month of March...
...third day, he was too weak to walk the 100 yards from the palatial Birla House to his prayer service, and he addressed the meeting through a loudspeaker from his bed. Physicians reported that he was weakening, hour by hour; his kidneys were not functioning properly. He sipped hot water apathetically...
...just above seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink soda water and beer to the pilots. In restaurants, of all places, they found red tape as endless as spaghetti...
...HEAR STRANGE THINGS ABOUT CATHOLICS. . . . You hear it said that Catholics believe all non-Catholics are headed for Hell . . . that they believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid . . . that they adore statues . . . are forbidden to read the Bible . . . use medals, candles and holy water as sure-fire protection against the loss of a job, lightning or being run down by an automobile...