Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plush polo field, framed by giant trees, dogs are benched under gay-colored canvas tops, exhibited on little red runways bordered with bright flowers. By noon last week there were 40,000 spectators gathered around the 65 judging rings. For the curious there was a special treat: four little brow-furrowed Basenjis, English refugees, shown by Dr. A. R. B. Richmond of Toronto...
First inhabitants of Australia, Birdsell said, appear to have been a pigmy people, some 20,000 years ago. Later comers, according to the theory, were a primitive, hairy, white strain from south-eastern Asia, related to the hairy Ainu, of Japan; and a third, dark-skinned people, with thick brow ridges, bearing a relationship to certain peoples found in India, and Ceylon...
Birdsell and Tindale found that in the first generation Australian hybrids nearly all traces of native parentage vanish. Dark skin, flat noses and heavy brow ridges disappear, and the hybrids possess clear-cut white features...
ADVISE YOU TAKE OUT INSURANCE ON THE SELF-CONSCIOUS LOW-BROW THAT REVIEWED MY BOOK [TIME, March 10]. WHEN I FIND OUT HIS NAME WILL CHALLENGE HIM TO A DUEL WITH WHAT APPARENTLY ARE HIS FAVORITE WEAPONS, THE HAMMER AND SICKLE. I HAVE MET THIS TYPE BEFORE AND CAN DEAL WITH IT AGAIN...
Across the continent a cautious man smiled a cautious smile. Canada's Prime Minister, W. L. Mackenzie King, is a middle-sized man with a care-furrowed brow, a neat round head neatly fringed with grey hair, and a fond expression. Cares and grey hairs come to him from troublesome Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and scholarly Premier Adelard Godbout of Quebec; his fondness is reserved for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Mr. King was happy: Messrs. Hepburn & Godbout were for the St. Lawrence Seaway project. Mr. King apprehensively asked whether the U. S. Government was really ready...