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Word: raccoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan) and the great La Tour (Victor Jory), a pair of major league magicians, are apparently having a contest to see which one can trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag off La Tour's corpse, which falls into a subterranean chamber full of canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...jaguars 2 ocelots 1 puma 1 anteater with baby 1 porcupine with adopted baby 1 large land turtle (40 Ib.) 1 coati (ring tail raccoon) 1 tu-u-u (jaburi stork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Menu | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Saturday afternoon a Cambridge policeman discovered a raccoon sitting on the top of a tree in the Yard. Somewhat disturbed by the crowd which soon collected under his perch, the raccoon removed itself in haste to the top of the Hemenway gymnasium, where for a time it appeared quite safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREE-CLIMBING EXPERTS GET RACCOON ON HEMENWAY ROOF | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Harvard Yard officers called the Animal Rescue League to rid them of the disturbing influence. Tree-Climbing experts arrived shortly and finally succeeded in climbing to a point where they were able to lasso the unfortunate raccoon, which was promptly carried off to the quarters of the Rescue League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREE-CLIMBING EXPERTS GET RACCOON ON HEMENWAY ROOF | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...famed Hearst of England. Because no hired coach is permitted at Kent, the coaching is all done by Kent's busy young teachers. White Cassock used to coach football, and until recently, hockey. (He is still a member of the Hockey Advisory Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.) Raccoon-coated, he had to shuffle about on the ice; he has never learned to skate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer at Harvard | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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