Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the average yearly mortality in U.S. zoos is about 20% for mammals, 18% for birds, three or four more years of war will mean many empty cages, bare pens. Says William Bridges of New York City's Bronx Zoo (world's biggest): "Zoos aren't folding up for lack of animals, but we can all see the handwriting on the wall pretty plainly." So last month Director Allyn Jennings of the Bronx Zoo held a think-meeting of eight of the biggest U.S. zoo-men. How could they fill their cages...
...room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
...German airmen feel quite as Wagnerian: "Franz Putzke was in one of his serious moods . . . he wasn't so keen about shooting the people who ran. . . . Lederer said: 'They are our enemies, aren't they? One must kill his enemies, too!' I said, 'Who are we to decide what to do or what not to do? The Führer decides.' Putzke wouldn't agree, and Lederer called him a democratic coward. . . . Of course, Putzke isn't a democratic coward. He's just not interested. Originally he wanted...
...Americans also learned that the winters aren't so cold and the defenses aren't so hot. Even though Iceland is tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would...
Over the bright new stone and whitewash museum that stood at the other end of the dooryard they brooded like a couple of aging hens over a porcelain egg. Grumbled George: "Those buildings they're putting up aren't adequate. Candidly I never saw a carriage shed anywhere like those out there. That's just an architect's imagination, that is." Said Brother Henry philosophically: "Well, we want these things to be where people can see and study them." Descended from a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch, they were brought up in a well...