Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year are attacked-a woman in California who buried a chipmunk; a boy in Idaho who stole a magpie's egg from a nest littered with half-eaten remains of ground squirrels; a hunter in Wyoming who bagged a jack rabbit. The disease is chiefly transmitted from beast to beast and beast to man, by fleas. In human beings it takes three forms, identical in cause and in effect (probably death within a week...
...Meets Mule. To many a mountain soldier, spring with its mules was a comedown. When trooper met mule, man & beast were mutually suspicious. The Army began a glamorizing campaign, argued that mules were smarter, surer-footed and more playful than horses, hung a sign: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Mules in the World" (see cut, p. 62). Result: many a ski trooper volunteered to work with the animals, now thinks that mules as well as skis have their points...
...tactics are not very different in mountain fighting, but carrying them out is more difficult. Traveling uphill is slower than walking on the level, coming down is faster for men (especially on skis) but maddeningly slow for mules. The rare mountain air forces frequent rests, even after man & beast are accustomed...
Schoolboy. In three consecutive issues the Moscow News broke the first war year's Russian stoicism by demanding action from Russia's allies: "The beast of Berlin, badly mauled and bleeding, is fighting desperately to break through the principal link in the world chain around him. His rear is his weakest spot. . . . War abhors lost opportunities...
...about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...