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Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean...
To millions of West German moviegoers, life in the U.S. must seem rugged if not downright hazardous. Of some 78 feature-length Hollywood films scheduled for release in occupied Germany this year over half are westerns and thrillers. Last week, Washington announced a $2,500,000 deal to give the...
Unlike bees and ants, spiders do not handle their military and supply problems collectively; they are rugged individuals. Hence it is usually important that the young disperse as soon as possible, in order not to interfere with one another. With most spiders, dispersion is accomplished by ballooning. The young climb...
The range of 17th Century American literature is not wide, and its forms are not overly refined. The early colonists were too busy building a civilization to write much about it. Yet its dirt-simple honesty and plow-ahead directness set the main style for later American writing, just as...
In the fall of 1910 a tall, sandy-haired young Bostonian rented a house in the rugged foothills behind Santa Barbara, Calif., hired two assistants and opened a private school for nine boys. Headmaster Curtis Wolsey Gate, who had been an English master at nearby Thacher School, was convinced that...