Word: deerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seduction at the piano [TIME, Nov. 25]. But what is going to happen now that Airwick, the total deodorant, is spending thousands too? . . . Will the moral turpitude curve show a downward trend when Airwick kills the high-priced and seductive smells distilled from the scent glands of the musk deer and the civet cat? Think on these things...
...Mice. At 300 sessions, 1,335 papers were read, on everything from owls to unborn stars. An owl-man, Dr. Lee R. Dice of the University of Michigan, described experiments on the survival value of protective coloration. He sprinkled a laboratory floor with soil. He populated the area with deer-mice, half of which matched the soil in color; half of which did not. Then he loosed owls, turned down the lights and retired. Over a series of such experiments, the owls, ate 24 to 29% more contrasting mice than matching ones. This, said Dr. Dice, illustrated the biological mechanism...
...progress of the rest of the world. Example: the ceremonies among some Chaco tribes when a girl reaches puberty. She cowers in a hut with a blanket over her head while long lines of older women parade around her, striking the ground with sticks, rattling bunches of deer hooves. Medicine men beat drums. Young men, masked like evil spirits, howl on the outskirts, try to break through the picket line. The coming-out party lasts a month. Then the pickets disperse; the girl throws off the blanket, takes a bath, is thenceforth considered grown up. Among the Bororos of Brazil...
Deadly Sport. In Wisconsin, where the deer season was at its height, hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that...
Mild Weather, Noisy Leaves. But enough city marksmen were getting their deer to keep a steady stream of autos roll back from Maine and Michigan with carcasses slung over the fenders. The day before the Michigan season opened, an eight-mile line of autos waited to get on the ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record...