Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Utopia Undone. Commanding officer at Fort Bragg, N. C. is Major General Jacob Loucks Devers. Until last September his post was the peaceful habitat of some 5,000 field artillerymen. Aside from more or less perfunctory summer maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass...
...dances and rhythmic poundings, but orangs and gibbons do not. By people who have studied them closely, gibbons are usually described as shy, gentle, amiable, affectionate. Gorillas are reserved, deliberate, discreet. Chimpanzees are lively, responsive, emotionally unstable. These temperamental differences are obviously not due to variations in the natural habitat, for animals born in captivity manifest them. Moreover, at this stage, differences between individual members of the same species are noticeable...
...also indicates the effect war has had on Britain's supply of young leading men. When the story opens on a Danish freighter captained by scowling Conrad Veidt, his usually villainous demesne has been transformed into the habitat of rugged Scandinavians. After his ship is interned in a British port, and he courts mysterious but pretty Valerie Hobson during a blackout, it begins to appear that Veidt may be on the Right Side for once. When they both were captured and held by German spies, he is obviously all there is left a hero...
Scientists interested in tracing the development and spread of modern domesticated cattle have long sought such evolutionary records as are found in the kouprey, but had hoped best to discover such records in fossils, Mr. Coolidge reported. Finding such a form still surviving in its native habitat is of striking scientific interest...
...very unusual for so primitive a form to survive without a completely isolated habitat, such as an island, but the jungle area inhabitated by the kouprey is comparatively little hunted by white men, Mr. Coolidge states...