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Word: clawful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cannibals devour them; lions and tigers pounce upon them, claw and maul them to bits. They elbow their way through dense jungles, visiting and converting little pygmies and big black bucks. They fall ill of dread and curious diseases. From home they receive boxes of worn-out dresses, aprons, old hats, old pants for the natives. Chieftains salute them; witch-doctors harry them. Thus, traditionally, missionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tradissionary | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Fred Blakeley of Sydney who also was "fossicking" in the district. Mr. Blakeley, brother of Arthur Blakeley. Australian Minister of Home Affairs, at once went to the scene of Big Jim's big scare, found the reptile's traces. Evidently it was a monster lizard. From front claw to hind claw it measured 6 ft. 3 in., which indicated a total length of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two-Headed Turtle | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Alexander Siemel requires a few courageous mongrel dogs, a high-powered rifle with a bayonet attached or a six-foot spear. The dogs trail the tiger. If they tree it, Hunter Siemel shoots it through the head. (If shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill a tiger, in hand-to-claw combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Tiger Man | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

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