Word: hunters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council election committee for this election was headed by Council members William S. Tyson '51 and Donald M. Bornstein '50. Members of it are F. Martin Bowne '51 (chairman), Joel E. Gordon '52, Andrew A. Hunter '51, Christopher R. Knauth '51, Theodore C. Nelson '52, and John K. Rabenold...
...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...
...present the street floor houses Hunter Haig, a haberdasher, in addition to the cleaning establishment. The Advocate occupies the entire second floor, while the remaining space is used for offices of various professors...
...Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, there was no cause for complaint except perhaps that hunters got their daily bag limit (four ducks) too quickly, often in the first 15 minutes. In the most northern lakes and sloughs, when the season was ending last week, connoisseurs had been hand-picking the breed of duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked...
...expensive business for visiting gunners. At Stuttgart, guide service plus a fee for shooting on private land came to $15 a day. Transportation, hotel expenses, tips, food-bank freezing and dressing fees put the average day's costs at $30, or $7.50 for each duck if the hunter got the four-duck limit. Even that made no allowance for gear, ammunition or guns-which ranged from ordinary twelve-gauge single-barrels to over-and-under pieces that could cost as much as $2,500. To the habitués it was worth...