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...Shamba is a native word for garden. Shamba elephants are rogues which, splitting off from the herd to roam alone, will not only trample gardens and farms but have been known to attack human beings without provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Davisons in Africa | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prowess in Action | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...fluttery days the women were permitted to roam the air station arm-in-arm with the flyers. For months the men had been confined in monastic seclusion lest any of them get off mental or emotional balance. Under the fanatical hawkeye discipline of their commander, Col. Aldo Pellegrini, they dined together at a severely vegetarian training table. The hours of each day were strictly apportioned to flight practice, study, outdoor sport, sleep. A wife who tried to see her husband at Orbetello was brusquely informed at the gate: "All the pilots of the Atlantic squadron are bachelors." Indignantly she hurried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Masses Like Infantry | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...which includes all other cities and industrial sections. Russians permitted to live in these two Zones must have passports, may move around a little. Zone No. 3 will take in the rest of Russia: villages and farm lands. There Russians will have no passports, no freedom to roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Sting & Purge | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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