Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which...
...President Quezon had sold his country down the river, had done nothing but bring ruin several years closer. Then people in Manila began thinking about Mr. Quezon's brain, and some began to believe that Quezon's understanding with the New Deal might contain a bark worse than its bite. Stock prices recovered...
...Sara Allgood of The Plough and the Stars) is unable to pay his long-overdue license fee. This innocent situation causes the town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy arouses the dog-loving electorate, not to hiss, but to bark him out of office. There are also two divorce cases and a love affair attributable to Patsy before the final curtain falls...
...Moscow last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts...
...Westminster not only in number of entries (4.352 to 3,144) but also in having on display ten Basenjis-little red dogs from the Belgian Congo which wash their faces with their paws, arch their backs when angry, chase lions and emit no sound but "groo," having lost their bark in centuries of silent jungle tracking. The two shows were alike, however, in having on their entry lists more cocker spaniels than any other breed...