Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shereschewsky, who will start at fullback, has already made a name for him self as a powerfull ball carrier and plunger and his presence in the starting lineup assures a capable carrier for power plays...
...enlarge the U. S. Navy. Present savings will vanish if and when 188,500 tons of new "Treaty" cruisers are built. Of this total, 70,000 tons (seven cruisers) are now in construction or appropriated for. Also permitted by the Treaty are 56,300 tons of new aircraft carriers, of which 13,800 tons (one carrier) has so far been ordered by Congress...
...generation is a long time to remember but I well recall going up in the air when the papers told of the shooting of Andree's carrier pigeon. The little messenger had flown 150 mi. toward home and came to rest on the mast of a ship whose captain shot him. At -the time I wrote a vitriolic article for a local paper condemning the brutality of men in general and of that captain in particular. As that ship proceeded on its way it met another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with...
...July 11, 1897 the Oernen (Eagle) with its three occupants cast off from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, sailed north, was lost forever. Of a number of carrier pigeons taken along, one made its way home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east...
...tsetse fly, carrier of sleeping sickness, chiefly attacks antelope and zebra. Since domestic cattle run loose in South Africa, they come in contact with wild animals, are in turn infected. Natives seeing a wild herd fire indiscriminately, shoot many healthy animals. Last year 20,000 zebras, kudu, buffalo, inyala, gazelle, red hartebeest were killed. Only one small herd of the red hartebeest exists today in Zululand. Another victim of native cattlemen is the rare white rhinoceros. Because there are only 47 of these animals left in British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery...