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...their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them out. The Academy then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom nature played a sorry trick. "With small brain and powerful body and with the ferocity of both, this cat was more insistent on reaching and closing with its prey than probably any other animal." Then nature, which had evolved this perfect specimen, changed its environment, and the tiger, good for little but biting, soon disappeared.-Dr. John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington...
...been carefully paced by plane, automobile and timing device. Ducks and geese, said Biologist Cook, seldom have a higher cruising speed than 40 m. p. h. As far as she knew, the swiftest bird timed was a duck hawk which attained spurts of 180 m. p. h. pursuing prey. Other bird speeds...
...Playwright Edouard Bourdet's machine, explains that he is going to walk home, not for the exercise but for a breath of fresh air. By that time the overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav. The other, orchidaceous young Derek Williams (Journey's End) finally agrees to wed a lusty, rich young...
That great bird of prey...
...Britannia withdrew from the next day's racing and left the King's cup an easy prey for indefatigable Sir Thomas Lipton. He had won it once before, in 1908. This year he won it as a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron...