Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having brought back alive three Komodo dragons from the Dutch East Indies (TIME, May 21, 1934), two young Harvardmen and amateur naturalists. William Harvest Harkness Jr. of Manhattan and Lawrence T. K. Griswold of Quincy, Mass., set out in the autumn of 1934 after still rarer game-the giant panda of western China. No white man had ever seen this curious creature until a French missionary chanced on one in the late 19th Century. First white men to shoot one were Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, in 1929. No giant panda had ever been brought out alive...
When Sportsmen Harkness & Griswold reached China early last year, the Government refused them permission to enter the giant panda's wild, bandit-infested habitat. Alone, Harkness boarded a Shanghai train at Nanking, vanished. Fortnight later, a U. S. Marshal found him in a Shanghai hotel, registered under an assumed name...
Duquesne's giant-killers, conquerors of mighty Pitt, knocked down passes by Marquette's Buivid, nipped Marquette's rising Rose Bowl hopes...
...voice than ever. Inevitable develop ments include a fight with a crocodile, underwater swimming, treetop acrobatics. Eventually Tarzan is trapped by villainous Captain Fry. He escapes in time to rescue the party from the fiendish Ganeloni tribe, achieves sadistic revenge on Captain Fry in a swampy cave full of giant lizards...
Telescope Robot. Photographing the spectrum of a distant star, even in Mt. Wilson's giant telescope, may take four or five hours. One of astronomers' most tedious chores is to sit on a lofty, cramped perch at the eyepiece during these long exposures, in order to keep the cross-wires of the telescope centred exactly on the star image. Beautifully accurate as it is, the drive mechanism which swings the telescope along with the star's westward movement cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last...