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Word: bearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going the way of the buffaloes are the great bears of America. California, onetime home of the great grizzly, has none left. Neighboring Oregon is said to have one, Washington five. Alaska, last refuge of the grizzly and the even greater Kadiak brown bear may soon be as bearless as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last of the Brownies? | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Bears, like most wild animals, may be frightened away by a noise. Bears will fight only when they think they are cornered. Correct procedure for an unarmed man grounded by an unwounded bear is to lie still. The bear will cuff and bite only as ong as his victim resists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last of the Brownies? | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Sportsman White denied that bears are responsible for the depletion of Alaska's salmon streams. His reasoning: Bears "must always have eaten as many salmon as they do today. . . . There was no depletion even after we came along, as long as we fished reasonably."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last of the Brownies? | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

On the site where the original bank stood in 1799, the Bank of Manhattan Building bears soaring tribute to the four men (Paul Moritz Warburg, chairman of Manhattan Co.,** James P. Warburg, president of International Manhattan Co., John Stewart Baker, chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan Co., Stephen Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tallest | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

The sentiments of any self-respecting tower under similar conditions can easily be imagined. After waging such an heroic struggle for so many months against the forces of nature in general and gravity in particular, thus to have one's efforts crowned with a mere golden ball obviously fake, at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOK OUT, BELOW | 6/4/1930 | See Source »

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