Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax to early local circus history came in 1843, when a promoter brought 15 buffaloes, "captured in the Rocky Mountains," to Worcester and parked them back of a hotel. Their escape concentrated the attention of Worcester residents on a relentless buffalo hunt for three days before normal activity could be resumed...
...many a year Dr. Bridges worked under Thomas Hunt Morgan of Caltech. It was Dr. Morgan who demonstrated the localization of transmitting units on the chromosomes, "linkage groups" (tendency of certain characteristics to be transmitted in groups), and "crossing over'' (interchange of genes between male and female chromosomes). For his laboratory animal Dr. Morgan used hardy, quick-breeding Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly. His reward was the Nobel Prize (TIME...
Liberty's "intimate revelations" were written by Frazier ("Spike") Hunt, old-time journalist and War correspondent. He owns a ranch in Western Alberta near the Prince's ranch, proudly boasts that he and H. R. H. are "good neighbors...
...return to China and the numerous little Chans when he receives an impassioned plea from Pamela Gray to come to the aid of her brother who is to be hung in three days for a murder which he did not commit. Chan consents and soon appears at the Hunt Club where Lt. Hamilton was murdered, supposedly by Gray. With his uncanny eye for telling bits of evidence, Chane soon finds out enough to cause an attempt to be made on his own cause an attempt to be made on his life. With only eight hours remaining before the time...
Long have New Yorkers been accustomed to seeing each summer begin with some such headline as DITMARS SAILS TO HUNT BUSHMASTER, end with DITMARS BACK; NO BUSHMASTER. It was, therefore, a metropolitan milestone last week when word flashed from the Caribbean that the 25-year search of Dr. Raymond Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's famed reptile man. was over at last. His bushmaster, a great snake whose bite is the deadliest in the American tropics, had been caught by a white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow...