Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...known among U. S. preparatory school boys as a place where you have to make your own bed and where the headmaster is a bug on rowing. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, the headmaster, was coxswain of the Columbia crew in 1895. Ten boatloads of Kent boys row every spring afternoon on the Housatonic River. In 1927, and again this year, Father Sill took his best oars to England...
...probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near the top of its head. Found from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, it is migratory, a fly-by-night beneath Spring and Autumn moons. Sportsmen find it hard to hit because of its erratic, dodging flight. But, foolish, it seldom flies far. Clumsy gunners can sometimes flush and shoot at the same woodcock a half-dozen, times. The female is larger than the male. Parent woodcock often carry their young clutched between their...
...victory over the Examiner was not the first, but the most lucrative of a series of libel suits begun last year by Mr. Dinwiddie against Hearstpapers for an "expose" printed in the spring...
...administration he engaged the Chicago Symphony for ten weeks. Excerpts from operas were included in the programs, became increasingly popular. Important members of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies were engaged. They liked to be invited to Ravinia. Last autumn Bori received a cable asking her to sing this spring at London's Covent Garden. To accept would have meant deserting Ravinia. Her answer was: "I go to Louis...
...hung like an incubus over 1930 prices. The U. S. Department of Agriculture last week estimated the 1930 winter wheat crop at 532 million bu.-46 million bu. below last year's harvest of the same grain. But even this apparent cut did not materially aid prices. The spring wheat crop remained as yet unestimated. The Farm Board, according to grain experts, is bucking the same world-wide economic depression that has retarded U. S. business, reduced U. S. exports and imports, crashed stockmarket prices to new lows...