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Word: catchers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher, and a pygmy owl. The four towering volcanoes which surround the lake are thought to have prevented the birds from migrating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUATEMALAN BIRDS ARE INCITING FORCE FOR TRIP TO CENTRAL AMERICA | 10/9/1930 | See Source »

Fielding. The Athletics have "the best catcher in the world"?Mickey Cochrane. The Cardinals have Frankie Frisch? probably the best second baseman, who has played in five world series. Connie Mack's famed defensive infield (Foxx, Bishop, Boley, Dykes) is about as efficient but certainly no more so than Gabby Street's (Bottomley, Frisch, Gelbert, Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

When the curator of a zoo needs an unusually large cobra for his snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which is the exact size and shape required. For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc. Fortnight ago he published a book telling what an animal catcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: White Seals | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop at the end, like a dog-catcher's dog- catcher. When the snake finds itself cornered, it will make for the water. The captors will slip their loops over the beast's head and tail, work them toward the middle to make room for more loops. Hunter Siemel is confident that six men with six loops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Catching Them | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Army is quietly and deftly directed by Richard Wallace. Other pictures like this have often degenerated into a series of disconnected gags, but Wallace keeps the action moving along, and when nothing else is happening entertains the spectator simply by his manipulation of photography. The activities of the dog-catcher of Buford, Tenn., his dog Deep Stuff and his best friend, persuaded to join by a recruiting sergeant who mentions easy eating, sleeping and band music, seem to have humorous possibilities. But Anybody's War is only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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