Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that I should add my tuppence ha' penny worth to the Cause of the koala [TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.] As a resident of Australia for 14 years I have had first-hand experience with the "Joey." The term "Teddy Bear" is an American importation and is not used "down under...
Evidence indicated that Pekin Man was 500,000 to 1,000,000 years old, since he was found with remains of bear, deer, rhinoceros, hyenas and rodents of the early Glacial Age. He also appeared to be a cannibal especially fond of eating from the head, since the heads discovered seemed to have been severed from their trunks. No traces of tools or fire were discovered. The third and fourth skulls found this year were buried ten feet lower than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature...
...75th birthday, at Yellow Springs, Ohio's onetime Senator Simeon Davison Fess proudly showed newshawks a stack of firewood he had sawed, said he was still working on his four-volume history of Ohio. Exulted he: "I work every day, sleep like a deer, eat like a bear...
Dean Mimno's office is in Cruft; the Engineering School secretaries are in Pierce; dictation must be given and taken. Engineering brains were put to work to bridge the gap, and the Zeppelin was created to bear dictaphone rolls from dean to secretary and transcribed correspondence from secretary to dean...
...raise my glass in a toast to Mrs. Roosevelt, whom I see in my mind, following day by day and with increasing emotion, your triumphal journey to these friendly republics: To the companion of your days, a kindly and generous woman." Franklin Roosevelt made suitable reply and after another bear hug boarded the Indianapolis...