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...that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Because their lives are an unrelenting and insatiable search for food, shrews exist in a perpetual state of nervous tension. So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Untamed Shrews | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

With a flip of the bear's paw the Bulgarian Government had been knocked off the fence on which it had been trying so desperately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: One Strike and Out | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...Washington gossips croaked the news that Vice President Henry Wallace brought Franklin Roosevelt from Chungking: China's situation is grave, even desperate. And last week neutral Russia, breaking its long reticence about the Sino-Japanese war, treated its exhausted neighbor to a stroke of the bear's paw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Bear's Paw | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...theaters had been reduced to a two-month supply. Each theater had burned up about 65,000,000 gallons of 100-octane during May, with even greater consumption due in months to come. But if refiners can produce even a little more than they are making now, PAW is confident that production will somehow exceed the 1944 estimates of 196,000,000 bbl. To help the boost, they will get 400,000 bbl. of butylenese, diverted this week by Rubber Director Col. Bradley Dewey from the rubber progrram to octane manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Up Octane | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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