Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shame on TIME for trying to pass off a sloppily stuffed sack of fur as a live elk. All your bugling hunter is going to lure out of that glass-eyed mount are moths...
...look of a lady wrestler in search of a match, wanders in to offer Sinatra a large box of cheese. Also in the field: Celeste Holm, a girl violinist who likes to come over to Frankie's house and fiddle, and a certain Miss Snr (rhymes with fur), who works...
...Pinkerton detective and two Princeton proctors searched through the headquarters of College organizations last night for a Tiger suit, missing from the props of Nassau's cheerleading squad. The fur suit, famed for its expert Charlestoning, disappeared from a student's room, where its three guardians had left it while eating dinner. Appealing for aid from anyone who knows its whereabouts, they said that though the suit looked and felt like a tiger, its bite was harmless...
...marimo is a plant, a kind of alga (Aegagropila sauteri), found in three small patches of water in Lake Akan on the northern island of Hokkaido. Their name means "ball of fur," and fair-sized specimens look like green, fuzzy tennis balls. What makes them so dearly beloved is their quaint behavior...
Gamboling Algae. As marimos lie on the bottom of Lake Akan (or of an aquarium in a Japanese gentleman's home), they exhale oxygen which collects as small bubbles entangled in their fur. When enough gas has accumulated, the marimo rises to the surface. It breaks the water with a gentle plop and rolls around languidly until most of the gas has escaped. Then it sinks to the bottom to collect more bubbles. This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining...