Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...keep pythons in London flats, monkeys in the East End and dogs everywhere. One of the proudest days in Ornithologist Neville Chamberlain's life was when, during one of his customary early morning bird-watching walks with his wife in St. James's Park, he spotted a rare, migratory, dark-pied wagtail duck...
Last week those troubles were very much in evidence. For the third week in succession criticism (as rare in recent Japan as whales in the Mississippi) broke out in the Diet. Three weeks ago Takao Saito said the country was tired of war. Then Kiroku Oguchi said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances...
Master of Carville is blue-eyed, white-thatched Dr. Hermon Erwin Hasseltine.Shy in company, but bold in his laboratory, Dr. Hasseltine has traveled from Alaska to Hawaii exploring such rare diseases as hydrophobia, undulant fever, psittacosis (parrot fever)-which he has twice come down with. An authority on leprosy, at 58 he still devotes all his spare hours to research...
...owner of Göteborg's famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion the Swedish people have of the powers which are struggling to dominate them. . . . They cannot be made...
...entire team was clicking in rare form although only Captain Charley Lutz with 12 points had a high total. Little Albie Meyers, star Blue and White forward, was the evening's highest scorer with 16 points, of which no less than six were scored on free throws...