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Word: hunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beagle hound is a friendly, flop-eared little dog with a tail that wags with the furious regularity of a revving propeller. As the "harrier," he was bred in England and Wales at least 600 years ago to hunt small game; today he is equally at home on heath or hearth, looks like a slightly bowlegged, apartment-size (13-15 in. high) foxhound. Last week, as a reward for his amiable ways, the beagle was acclaimed No.1 U.S. purebred dog by the American Kennel Club. With a population of 45,398 registered A.K.C., the beagle nosed the friendly, flop-eared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Top Dog | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

UNDERWATER prospectors have taken up the hunt for tidelands oil. California's Monterey Oil Co. is sending down teams of diver-geologists to prowl the ocean bottom (to depths of 150 ft.), looking for likely formations in areas where seismographic exploration with dynamite is forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Conquest of Everest, by Sir John Hunt. An engrossing account of the great climb by the commander of the expedition (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...only solution, Hooton says, is for these "stringbeans" to marry short girls. For example, girls like the short, squat French-Canadians that Hunt mentioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Warns Against Human Beanpoles | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

...Like Hunt, Hootoon believes that with many diseases now conquered and better living conditions appearing, the rise of the tall people is to be expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Warns Against Human Beanpoles | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

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