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...times of crisis in the past it was rarely selfishness or cruelty or strength of talon and of claw that determined success or failure. Survival values at different times have been measured in different terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MATHER OUTLINES ARGUMENTS TO PROVE WORTH OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY | 10/13/1925 | See Source »

...serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly to Americans, who now favor the curt backswing with a short-shafted, large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tolley's Book* | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

Napoleon designed the uniform to be worn by members, which consists of "a dark green claw-hammer coat covered with embroidered palm leaves, trousers of the same hue, a cocked hat with green feathers, a court sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Academician | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...TIGER'S CLAW.-Among the difficulties through which Jack Holt, American engineer in India, has to wend his unassuming way are a tiger, a half-caste wife, a sweetheart from back home and a lot of "thugs." A dam is well dynamited. The half-caste proves her mettle as a lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 24, 1923 | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

Tiger comes down with roar and claw: he hopes to win today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FOR PRINCETON GAMES | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

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