Word: deer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Others: Babirusa or pig-deer; Cynopithecus nigrescens, the black, crested baboon...
Pioneer Days. "The early pioneers faced many hardships. . . . Their companions were forest bears, panthers, deer, wolves, wildcats and raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
...keeping with TIME'S record. In only one particular I would like to add a codicil for accuracy: Mayor Knagg's motley army carried no guns when it broke the picket line, save half a dozen who toted their own side arms. Shotguns and deer rifles appeared on the scene later Thursday when the vanguard of Pontiac's threatened invasion straggled into town. American Legion members, who were patrolling the streets while the mayor's special officers were still guarding the road to the mill, ran home for their guns when an Associated Press bulletin brought...
...Shapera's business to treat dogs, the statue was an advertisement and therefore violated a district zoning ordinance. The veterinarian retorted that it was not an advertisement but a work of art-just as artistic, in his eyes, as a marble nymph or a cast-iron deer. One of Dr. Shapera's neighbors happens to be Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed reptile man of the Bronx Zoo. Dr. Ditmars not only declared Iron Mike to be "as offensive as a cigar-store Indian and as emblematic as the three balls over a pawnbroker's shop," but criticized...
...central panel, fairly near the centre," said Artist Bouché, "are three deer and they are just grazing and standing around. I just painted them because they are so sweet." The right and left panels, which must stand alone since the central section will often be covered by a cinema screen, show an Indian and a surveyor gazing at the landscape and cowboys rounding up buffalo...