Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarce as tropical snowstorms are cases of fertility in mules. Like many other hybrids, the cross between a horse and an ass rarely breeds, whether mated with another mule, ass or with a horse. Hence, when a mule belonging to Don Salvador Calero foaled in Buga, Colombia, last week, local veterinarians were astonished, called it the first such case in the history of the republic. Awe-struck Colombians gathered at Calero's stable, gladly paid admission to see the mule foal. To the ignorant and superstitious the unnatural event was disturbing...
Arthur B. Emmons will speak in the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 4 o'clock this afternoon on "The Mountain Barrier Between India and China." Emmons crossed these mountains on foot and by mule last summer, studying the geography and the tribal customs of the natives. He also took pictures with which he will illustrate his lecture...
...Defeated in open battle, the Communists decided on a fantastic escape. Leaving a skeleton force at the front, they moved south & west on the night of Oct. 16, 1934, before Chiang Kai-shek's army got wind of their retreat. With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment. In forced marches, they crossed twelve provinces, over the 16,000-ft. passes of the Tibet mountains, through the swampy wastes of the grasslands in west China, twice missed annihilation by a hair in crossing treacherous, enemy-held rivers...
...impenetrable' miles" from Barranquilla to Panama were covered by compass only-true-and he "hacked," "ferried," "pontooned" and carried his Ford (in pieces?) on the very sizable "mule" Lloyd's registered S. S. Venezuela of the Royal Netherlands Steamship...
...calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip taking 28 minutes against the mule's ten days...