Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally ignoble as game is the gorilla, rapidly being killed off by frightened natives and photographers who have irritated bull gorillas to the point of charging. The gorilla was given absolute protection because it is naturally amiable, while the chimpanzee, which has acquired the habit of kidnapping native children and dropping them from trees, was relegated to the partially protected list...
...pygmy or Liberian hippopotamus, like its big, common brother, is amiable too unless it is a mother with young, wounded or just an old bull "rogue." Only six or seven feet long, it has always been very rare and for that reason badly wanted by zoos. Unfortunately it lays itself open to shooting by doing a lot of cross-country rambling...
...Harkness in the 175-pound class is another undefeated candidate from last year's Freshman team, while Bill Cavin, a junior, has a clean slate except for a defeat at the hands of Bull, the New England champion in the 145-pound class. Captain Stoddard, who holds the New England 135-pound championship and who was runner-up in the Eastern intercollegiate, seems to be the only contestant who may be fairly confident of victory...
...blatant fashion last week bull-necked Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring divulged the secret that Great Britain, in assenting to German violation of naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME. June 24), assented also to violation of its air clauses. Germany is to lay down in 1936 aircraft carriers totalling 47,000 tons and construct squadrons of torpedo seaplanes as large as Pan-American Transpacific Clippers...
...urbane satirist. It has had bucolic satirists, like Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne and Mark Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical...