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...denying emphatically any such exciting and adventurous experiences as the CRIMSON reported him to have had he did admit under pressure to having hunted for five days in company with his brother during which time he "saw" a lion, and shot a few African bush animals of the same genus as the American skunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reporter Learns Skunks Not Lions Were Bag of C. J. Hubbard on Trip to Portuguese East Africa | 11/6/1924 | See Source »

...SHOW-OFF-One of the very best etchings of the genus fourflusher, hoisted with his own boosting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 24, 1924 | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

Previous to the publication of this plan there was some criticism and not a little mockery. There had been, said many, plans and plans, new plans and more plans. But this program is of a slightly different genus. Its forerunners were framed to meet changing ideas of education. This one was formulated to meet necessity. The College in general, and the Committee in particular, can only be congratulated on meeting that grim dragon courageously and diplomatically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NECESSITY'S CHILD | 3/5/1924 | See Source »

...Streptococcus-a genus of micro-organisms which do not move but remain grouped in long chains, producing pus and causing pneumonia, erysipelas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Measles Serum | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

Rossum's Universal Robots, patented by the Czech playwright Karel Capek, are no more curious and involuntary machines than genus homo as he is analyzed in the latest theories of Dr. George W. Crile, the great Cleveland surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Human Machine | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

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