Word: panda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to the letter written to you by Hon. D. C. Marshall of Forty Fort, Pa. (TIME, Feb. 1) in regard to the bamboo shoots required for the diet of Su-lin, the giant panda, I noticed that he states the northernmost point he has seen the plant growing is just outside Jacksonville...
...this very prolific plant. So bad did it begin to spread that we had to devise a very elaborate system of trenches around the area to keep it in bounds. Even that is not 100% efficient, and it just struck me if we could get ahold of that panda thing our problem might be solved...
...TIME, Jan. 4, p. 25, you state "when she grows up Su-lin will . . . eat nothing but bamboo shoots." In the same article you state that the baby giant panda's native habitat is "China's chilly Szechwan Province." It has been my belief that bamboo grows only in tropical or subtropical climates. The northernmost point at which I have seen it growing is just outside Jacksonville, Fla. and that is, 1 believe, at a Government experimental garden. Is there a different variety native to cold climates? Otherwise, how does this animal find bamboo in its native habitat...
...proceeded to set down 1912's "Sobering Statistics": "In 25 years, the Class of 1912 has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one Bishop of Albania who later became Prime Minister.-j-"Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda.** "We have only one Weather Man who advocates the 'frontal method' (three dimensions) over the 'surface method' (two dimensions). "In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...Lampoon last December. t Fan Stylian Noli, exiled in 1924. Also expected at the 1912 Reunion is U. S. Minister to Albania Hugh Gladney Grant. **Kermit Roosevelt, who in 1929 while on an expedition in the Himalayas with Brother Theodore & Classmate Charles Suydam Cutting shot (not "caught") a Giant Panda, now on exhibition in Chicago's Field Museum...