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...past years almost the most fun "Winnie" Churchill has had has been to rise up in the House of Commons, paw the air like a pink bear, and attack the financial bill (i. e. the Budget) presented by his archfoe gnomelike Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No. 2 by No. 2 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...spreading a net around one end of a fallen hollow tree, hunters in Arkansas last week caught a 98-lb. timber wolf with only two toes on his right hind paw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Toes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...years this wolf, called Two Toes because of mutilations suffered escaping from traps, had led his hungry pack through the forests of eastern Arkansas. The pack killed hundreds of sheep, goats, cows. Near the scattered bones enraged cattle owners always found the tracks of a huge, two-toed paw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Toes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: C.O.D. Trek | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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