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...intuition tells me that Dartmouth won’t pull out of its 16-game opossum-like “asleep at home, dead on the road” losing streak and upset the Tigers tomorrow night. And though I can see the emotions of senior night and Dave Faucher’s last game as the Big Green’s coach sparking some emotional play to at least keep the game close, such a run will only last for the first five to ten minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Harvard Hosts ‘The Real Game’ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...horn and claw, the Big Game firearm license is $27.50 (unfortunately, out-of-state hunters have to shell out almost 100 smackeroos). Alongside the usual fare of black bear, white-tailed deer and quail, a multitude of neighborhood critters can be turned into shish-kabobs. However, the crow, opossum, bullfrog and snapping turtle might provide scant amusement for marksmen of considerable moose hunting prowess. Aspiring trophy hunters and greenhorns of Harvard Yard, take note: Grey squirrel season opened October 17, with a bag limit of five. In addition, legal hunting hours commence 30 minutes before sunrise, so it is even...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: The Deer Hunter | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plumbing the Shallows | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...hoisted himself onto a branch to chop through the trunk. As the treetop toppled, he caught the kinkajou by the tail before it hit the water. Soon the little bear was safely ensconced in a cage in mid-canoe. A black-vested anteater was rescued next, followed by an opossum, two sloths and even a 6-ft.-long tree boa. Explains Walsh: "I don't apologize for saving snakes. I don't draw the line between what God creates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Roundup | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...longer just heavy rugs, furs now come in lighter weights, often in combination with leather, with removable foul-weather covers, and in a rainbow of nonnatural colors. Some new items: a burgundy-colored opossum jacket selling briskly in Manhattan stores for $600; Designer Calvin Klein's $3,000 celery-green kimono-style mink jacket at top department stores around the country. Especially popular are inexpensive jackets priced as low as $70, made of sewn-to-gether "plates"-fragments of paws, underbellies, and other less-than-prime skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Fur Flies Again | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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