Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Jan. 4, p. 25, you state "when she grows up Su-lin will . . . eat nothing but bamboo shoots." In the same article you state that the baby giant panda's native habitat is "China's chilly Szechwan Province." It has been my belief that bamboo grows only in tropical or subtropical climates. The northernmost point at which I have seen it growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla. and that is, 1 believe, at a Government experimental garden. Is there a different variety native to cold climates? Otherwise, how does this animal find bamboo in its native habitat...
...their coops, examined minutely by judges, most of whom were specialists in one or two of the 300 breeds represented. To winners went ribbons, trophies and cash, furnished out of the entry fees of 50? a bird. Noteworthy entrants: ¶ Biggest bird in the show was Ramon, a giant Runt* from Dallas. For his 3? lb., he had an 18-in. body circumference, wing spread of three feet. ¶ Unhappiest breed were Parlor Tumblers. Equipped with the determination of homing pigeons but utterly unable to fly, their efforts to get off the ground cause them to somersault backward. Single Tumblers...
...Benchley,* who proceeded to set down 1912's "Sobering Statistics": "In 25 years, the Class of 1912 has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one Bishop of Albania who later became Prime Minister.-j-"Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda.** "We have only one Weather Man who advocates the 'frontal method' (three dimensions) over the 'surface method' (two dimensions). "In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...George Norris himself, Republican Vermont went Republican Maine one better in 1936 by refusing a $10,000,000 National Parkway gift while Maine accepted Passamaquoddy. Yet to make doubly sure, the Green Mountain State still rears Vermonters as independent of her Republican traditions as Stephen A. Douglas, the Little Giant whom she bore and nursed at her Abolitionist breast to lead the last Democratic stand against Abraham Lincoln...
...Illinois farm had met. William Knudsen and Homer Martin, as opposing field generals, were locked in one of the crucial industrial battles of U. S. history-the struggle of United Automobile Workers to make good General Martin's old boast, organize all 69 automobile plants of giant General Motors Corp.* (TIME...