Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spithead last May, was shocked into cutting off the air an announcer who burbled "Damme! The fleet is all lit up!" (TIME, May 31). The offense which moved the censors on that occasion was obviously against sobriety. Last week BBC exercised its power of censorship again and Grey Owl, famed Ojibway of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who a few days earlier had lectured in Buckingham Palace before Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, stalked out of BBC's studios rather than submit to censorship of his remarks...
...their baby to a new home farther west. The long-haired young man, whose weathered face belied his trade, was a storekeeper with a passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars and driftwood, pulled him out. He lost the owl...
...went on, through hazards of flood, hurricane, earthquake, blizzard, to find another horned owl, 1,000 more birds. All of them he painted patiently, carefully, some of them over & over, until he had 1,065 water colors with which he was satisfied. While Audubon looked for an English publisher for his work, he had considerable trouble proving his point that the birds should be reproduced, as he had painted them, life size. "If large," one publisher wrote of the projected book, "only public institutions and a few noblemen will purchase it. If small, it may sell a thousand copies...
...State of Wisconsin has given full protection to all but five of the more than 30 species of birds of prey that are residents of or that pass through our State during migration. The five unprotected species are: Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, goshawk, great horned owl, and snowy owl. All other species have proven themselves extremely beneficial to the agriculturists. Many other States give protection to various species of birds of prey...
...Owl-eyed Biologist Julian Sorell Huxley predicted at Nottingham that the old dream of eugenists-human breeding by selected males and females only-would actually be put into practice within one or two generations. Said Dr. Huxley: "When people get used to the idea they will accept it just as they have accepted birth control...