Word: birding
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...current issue contains a bird's-eye view of the Business School, the Stadium and the new baseball cage; also a hither to unpublished photograph of the Harvard and Yale University crews taken at The Hotel Griswold several days before the annual race...
...world laughed in her cartoons and journalistic satire at the bird cages, umbrellas, and fans of the Chinese soldiers. But this soldier of yesterday is passing. The informal pleasant weather fighting has been displaced by modern war, and the 3,000,000 armed men have become a song of death to China, and a menace to the entire world...
...steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...
There are pictures and plans of various air ports of the United States, as well as a miniature of Boston's airport. Among the historic material are Leonardo da Vinci's "Studies of Bird Flights". Archimedes' "Geometry and Hydraulics", and a picture and account of a balloon inflation and ascension in France in 1785, as well as much magazine material, including contemporary periodicals...
...present. Why this course is not expanded to occupy a full year is just one of those inexplicable mysteries. As a result, however, of its present conduct, the student is forced to learn a very large number of slides in a comparatively short time--and hence gets merely a bird's eye view...