Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME made Franklin Roosevelt a whistling sailor only as a figure of speech to show his mood as the Lend-Lease Bill neared port, assigned him to no particular rating such as a bos'n's mate...
...Varsity gots its first taste of two new coaches yesterday as Al McCoy, formerly of Colby, drove the backfield prospects through their initial workout and Earl Brown took a promising flock of ends under his wing. Brown has the job on his hands of grooming a running mate for Loren MacKinney to take the place of Joe Koufman, who graduates...
...whooping crane attains a snowy height of six feet, was once considered a game bird. Last week the last 100 survivors were leaving the Gulf coast for their Canadian breeding grounds, where they mate with an elaborate dance. Probably they are holding their...
There he sets up housekeeping with an island mate (throughout the tale Ben knocks the women over like duckpins and rather enjoys saying so) and becomes something of a chieftain. By the time he leaves, he has picked up pearls which, in London, net him all the King's Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract...
...Toto (a she-gorilla) met Gargantua (a he-gorilla) last week. Their cautious introduction took place out behind the machine shop at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. The two giant gorillas whom John Ringling North hopes to mate (TIME, Dec. 30) were wheeled up face to face in their separate cages. Attendants and newsmen watched...