Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull is Spain's chief animal. He is a descendant of the wild bulls that roamed the Iberian peninsula, a closer cousin of the African Cape buffalo than of any domestic cattle. Spanish ganaderías (bull-raising establishments) raise their bulls in a wild state. Carefully bred to bring out all the courage of the strain, the best specimens are rigorously tested, the tame ones weeded out to be butchered. Those raised to fight are never allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones...
...Malaya Beastcatcher Buck trapped three black leopards for Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the New York Zoological Park. Black leopards are sports, are constantly being produced by Malaya's spotted leopards. They, too, have spots-under the fur. A Buck theory: that all the leopards in the Malay Peninsula will be black in a few hundred years. One of his captives he named Spitfire II because of its likeness to another black leopard that had once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby...
...snowing on the northern peninsula of Michigan one afternoon last week. At the vast deserted quarries of Inland Lime & Stone Co., 8 mi. from Manistique, a small group of men-Army & Navy observers, men from the Bureau of Mines and the Coast & Geodetic Survey, quarrymen, photographers - huddled under a line of steel freight cars. No other humans should have been within a mile of them. The occasion was dangerous. The military men said that during a heavy explosion it was best to stand on one's toes with the mouth open. The concussion then had less effect...
...result that fat Tommy Nast was promptly hired?at $4 a week. Constant difficulty in collecting even this salary caused him to leave Leslie's Weekly. The New York Illustrated News sent him to Italy to follow the triumphal advance of red-shirted Giuseppe Garibaldi up the peninsula. From this almost bloodless war he sent bales of drawings very much like those his great contemporary, Constantin Guys, was doing for the London Illustrated News. When he returned to the U. S. in 1861, 20-year-old "Roly Poly" Nast was already a public character...
...made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress of Berlin in 1878. It has been done twice with Japan, first when she was made to yield the Liaotung peninsula in 1895, and again when the United States caused her to reduce her twenty-one demands in 1915. But if it means that any signatory of the Pact has a right at any future time to refuse to recognize the provisions of a treaty so made, the question is much more...