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...University led a group of U. S. scientists and one 19-year-old Boy Scout out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela and into the mountains of Merida. Last week they were back in Manhattan with an assortment of rare or hitherto unknown birds and animals, including eight Andean dogs which bark like a cat's yowling, a little, spotted ocelot, foxes, iguanas, turkeys, macaws, lovebirds and 15 parrots...
...Bark, the hour of trial is sounding: Lampy's anxious fears are bounding...
...large back yard. She had only meant to discourage them from loitering. Her basement windows had to be washed twice a day because of them. "Early in the morning and late at night and . . . during the day there were dogs in front of the house" said Mrs. Corel. "They bark and howl. We tried to grow plants in window boxes but the dogs would not let them alone. . . . The dogs of neighbors destroyed the trees and shrubbery in front of the house and the dogs' owners would not restrain them...
...barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than his bite and who probably is a good fellow at heart; that he does not count in a land that produces eighty-story buildings, motors by the million and wheat by the billions of bushels...
...much noise as a 5-inch gun. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics ordered a newly designed "blast reducer" for all explosion-catapults. Built somewhat like an automobile muffler ?a cylindrical chamber perforated with many small holes?the device confines the blast, safeguards its kick, muffles its bark...