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Animal noises seldom before broadcast, have often and with great success been reproduced in sound films. Rin Tin Tin made his first public barks last month (TIME, April 14). Last week, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Co. was developing talkies of seals just made in Labrador and Raymond Ditmars, famed curator of the New York Zoological Gardens, who has already made a sound film of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, was preparing to make a talkie in an anthill...
Operated on a similar plan, the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association of America-started with $15,000,000 of Andrew Carnegie's money in 1918-reported, for 1929, that 3,660 pedagogs in 777 U. S., Canadian and Newfoundland institutions had taken out $32,788.197 worth of life insurance. Over $12,000,000 in annuity policies had been contracted for by 8,040 provident pundits...
These "thrillers" are so numerous in western Newfoundland that the field-botanist is always on the qui vive, and it is a rare and poor day when novel plants of great scientific interest are not brought in. Then follows a full day, or perhaps two days, indoors, putting the treasures into press and starting their proper drying, before another active day of field work can be undertaken. Often enough, after stretching every muscle and testing every nerve in the ticklish ascent and descent of successive cliffs, we reach home with our knee-joints so lame and stiff that...
Although the highest tablelands and slopes of western Newfoundland have had no recent glacial cap, some of them are today not very far removed from a local glacial condition. Practically every summer, compact snowbanks lie on the northern-facing slopes; and it is evident that, by a very slight reduction of the mean annual temperature these snowfields would be transformed into alpine glaciers...
Much of the joy of exploration in western Newfoundland consists in attempting to cross these snow-fields, a feat practically impossible unless one cuts steps in the icy masses; for although looking safe enough, these long-weathered snow-fields have a glassy surface, and it is easier to fall than to walk upon them. The photograph of my two companions at the lower edge of such a snow-field illustrates an experience which can be enjoyed on hundreds of slopes in late August after the melting days of summer are past...