Word: nested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplanting horses in our towns and cities, thereby depriving the sparrows of their food ... is correct, in part. But it is not the lack of grain found in horse manure that has done the damage-it has been the gradual disappearance of the sparrow's favorite and essential nest-building material (straw and hay) used in bedding and food for horses...
Cackling as proudly as a hen just off the nest, Cities Service Co. last week took full-page advertisements in 175 U.S. newspapers. It pointed out that in 1949 it had boosted its sales to a record $582.5 million, making it one of the top ten U.S. oil companies and one of the four biggest U.S. suppliers of natural gas. The company, said its strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.) President W. (for William) Alton Jones, 59, was in the "strongest position in its history...
...another Briggs room, a mouse climbs up and down the window curtain at will, taking tinsel from a plant pot for its nest. "We're afraid its pregnant," stated the occupants...
...lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily and 37 other papers, with a combined circulation of 10,000,000). In characteristically milder fashion, the Manchester Guardian also took Publisher Beaverbrook to task for "the Evening Standard's mare's nest about [Strachey]." Last week, a new attack on the Beaver came from within his own journalistic family. James Cameron, 39, who has averaged 100,000 miles a year as chief roving correspondent for Beaverbrook's Daily Express, quit his well-paid (?3,000 a year) job. In a letter...
...endeavors would thus mean 225 daily meals-but hawks are only around Cambridge between November and late March, Griscom explained. It is unlikely that they would pick Mem Hall as a place to nest, he added...