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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquiries about breeding koalas in captivity, probably as a result of your article. It may interest your readers to know-though of course this is quite apart from interest in preservation of the species-that koalas are unique in having a vermiform appendix of six to eight feet in length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year (Cont'd) | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...comfortable inertia of WPA work. Bad characters are smeared in charcoal black, heroes and heroines arrayed in magic garments of daring and beauty, playing a game of desperate designs upon a landscape lonely, hostile and magnificent. Its technique is the technique of the chase. Through most of its turbulent length it is excitingly devised, brilliantly photographed and filled to overflowing with Nick Carter characters who suddenly take on larger-than-life proportions, as if sculptured by Rodin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...stout British heart suffered any anxiety that Franklin Roosevelt might greet him with the same sort of bunny hug lately practiced on President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay (see cut) and other non-British notables, his fears were quickly dissipated. The President shook hands at arm's length, charmed Sir Murchison with nothing more embarrassing than a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ploughing Home | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

This linseed oil treatment makes the ski more flexible, thus less likely to break; and also keeps them from soaking; up water thus preventing warping. When skis are out of use for any considerable length of time they should be kept in a press. This consists of clamps at each end, holding the skis together a block in the middle which keeps the how in shape and a piece of wood or metal fastened to the points, pushing them apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKOAL TO THE WAX HOUND | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

Games- In Los Angeles, Southern California's Fullback Dick Berryman ran 65 yards for one touchdown and a moment later Bud Langley, a substitute halfback, intercepted a pass on his own goal line and went the length of the field for the other that balanced-the rewards of Notre Dame's two long marches, 13-to-13. At Tyler, Tex., Manhattan's rally in the last quarter failed to match Texas Aggies' two touchdowns in the third, 13-to-6. At Memphis, Tennessee and Mississippi came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football: Addenda | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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