Word: climb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the folio, the exhibit illustrates the famous controversy Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...
...Jesse James. Much different in technique are the raids still made on freight trains. Freight car robbers work often on moving trains, choose sparsely settled country where a highway runs beside the tracks. Swinging off from box car roofs on rope ladders, they break the seals on the doors, climb in and toss out everything they can lay their hands on. Confederates in trucks pick up the loot...
...devotee of deep-sea fishing, she also enjoys making ungentlemanly motorists climb lamp-posts and drives a heavy Packard expressly for that purpose...
...features make it impossible for the C.I.O. to climb the Canadian grades in the same gear which it used in Detroit. The hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming...
...rule that dogs can't climb trees, photographs which filtered into metropolitan circulation last week furnished proof of a startling exception. At Clyde, Kans.- 200 mi. down the Republican River from the scene of the historic Indian ambush currently depicted in The Plainsman- were run late in February the sixth annual Republican Valley Coon Hound Field Trials. Goal of the free-for-all race was a tree in which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd...