Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annoyances, and could themselves be annoying if you should ascend the Parima River to its source and find them at home, before they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals...
...Metabolism. In autumn and winter, the thyroid glands of pigeons enlarged and the pigeons' eggs were predominantly male. In spring and summer, small thyroids, female pigeons. One female, after hatching many clutches, actually turned male, sired a brood. (The significance of this research was that the thyroid principle, thyroxin, appeared to be more fundamentally connected with sex determination than the sex-cell chromosomes-Dr. Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Institute...
More squash racquet courts will be needed, as this form of exercise is developing rapidly and is one of the most popular and beneficial of winter sports...
...McFadden will open his company at Salem only as a temporary location. He plans to move it to New York the following winter and eventually to establish it as a permanent repertory organization...
...Neil was captain of the Freshman cross-country runners last fall and proved himself the star performer for the harriers by winning the meet against Yale in course record time. Since he came under Coach Farrell's tutelage during the winter he has developed into a promising middle distance man and has yet to be defeated in a Freshman engagement...