Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruth said, "where I learned my loving . . ." Ruth was an amateur of the living moment; she could quote poetry, swear tenderly. The eventualities aboard their pirate-schooner, the Mary Read, on Chesapeake bay; their chicken-stealing, arrest, abduction of a judge, capture of a ferryboat, and highly improbable treasure hunt, are matters for the thrice-fortunate reader to follow alone. The Significance being, simply, that the commonplace has suddenly, with sublime and innocent vulgarity, comic pedantry, unflagging ebullience, gone stark, raving romantic. Here is one book, at least, for which Autumn, 1926, is destined to be memorable. The Author, born...
...called "boeaja darat" by the Dutch, "land crocodile" by the English. Nearly extinct, this creature is a descendant of dinosaurs; he travels fleetly, his belly free from the ground; eats flesh by night; has been killed in lengths of 18 and 21 ft. Deaf, he is fairly easy to hunt. Of the "fumes not unlike smoke" scientists awaited further explanation...
...Ellsworth made a second statement, recalling how he and Amundsen had planned their Arctic continent-hunt two years ago, tried by airplane, failed, and looked about for an airship, which they found in Italy and bought, hiring her designer as captain and later including the captain-Nobile-in the title of the expedition "as a compliment to Mussolini and the Italians." Friction had begun before the ship left Rome. There was a scene when Riiser-Larsen, a big, strong, silent man, was reduced to tears by Nobile's vociferous demand for recognition and authority. "That man Nobile," Riiser-Larsen...
...current expedition to the heart of the Dark Continent, had shot such a beast. If he was carrying out his own plans as announced, (TIME, Mar. 22, SCIENCE), Mr. Eastman was doubtless at the scene, cranking way at his camera from behind a bush. Mr. Eastman planned to hunt, personally, with cameras only...
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly. His Prospero* calm had left him. He ordered that $100,000 be given to national geological survey and bureau of mines explorers to hunt for potash deposits in Texas...