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...good & bad gnus come from South Africa. They are also called wildebeests. The white tailed gnu is called a black wildebeest. Members of the antelope family (in which the U. S. antelope is not included), gnus do not know that their nearest U. S. kin is the wily mountain goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bad Gnu | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ghost | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Wernigerode, Germany, some hundred skeptical psychic researchers climbed to the top of Mt. Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ghost | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...which has earned the publication its Lampoon reputation, a criticism which can be applied to other undergraduate publications. The monthly has too few readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only in its worst moments, partially because it is the traditional goat among the sheep on Harvard's Parnassus, and perhaps because it is not too anxious to be read by the hoi polloi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTHER ADVOCATE | 6/15/1932 | See Source »

...Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes at Priscilla, would murder de Bernis but for his men, who want a lick at that Spanish treasure. When finally Leach has decided to seize de Bernis, torture his information out of him, de Bernis picks a fight with him, kills him, just as Sir Henry Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood & Lightning | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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