Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week Su Lin, first captive giant panda ever brought to the U. S., added oak twigs to her diet in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Unaccustomed to such rugged fodder, Su Lin caught a twig in her throat. Same day the twig was removed, but Su Lin fell into a decline, sank lower & lower. Desperate zookeepers placed her under an oxygen tent, tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda...
...afternoon last week a man walking along placid West Main Street in Belleville, Ill. suddenly looked up in horror, saw something approaching that looked like a giant black ice cream cone and roared with the noise of a hundred freight trains. That day, the same ominous sight and sound terrified farmers and townsfolk at random points through the Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Iowa. But in Belleville, where it was to destroy some 60 dwellings, kill ten people and injure 35, last week's twister struck hardest...
Those who attend a lecture by Charles H. Smiley of Brown University, at an "open night" on Thursday at the Observatory will have the opportunity to look through the giant telesope if the sky is clear, authorities revealed today...
...your editorial policy of be-"little"-ing Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians (TIME, Feb. 7). His country may be "little" in comparison to yours, but he rules six times as many subjects as you have subscribers. . . . He himself may be "little" compared with the giant of Sweden, or the barrel-like Göring, but so is the average man, on or off the throne. He has been called "fairly tall" by those who know...
Cowles is anything but overconfident as he starts for Cambridge. The one point victory over Harvard in mid-season was made with Moose Dudis, giant center in the lineup and with Dudis on probation and his first substitute, Bob White, out by the same route, Dartmouth has been considerably weakened...