Word: lin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lin (Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...
Last April Su-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for dissection. By last week Anatomist D. Dwight Davis had nearly made up his mind that the panda, the bear and the raccoon shared a common ancestor. He had completely made up his mind about something else: Su-Lin was a male...
...FAMILY-Adet & Anor Lin, with Foreword by Me/me/'-John...
Adet, Anor and Meimei (16, 13 and 8) are the daughters of Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), that hard-working and engaging Chinese exponent of the leisurely life. Says doll-like Meimei, who is spoiled and collects stamps: "Father told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats...
Coach Cariss needs additional pitching strength in the worst way, because Reagan can't possibly assume all mound duties. For the most part, the other Penn moundsmen are an untried lot and need much work under fire to bring them up to League standards. Lin Fawley and Tony Caputo are the hurlers in question, and each has been received rather roughly in starting assignments this year. All in all, it's safe to predict a rise for the Quakers this season because Reagan is good for a few victories but they aren't going...