Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your note about Oscar the seal in the Miscellany column [TIME, April 7] was not completely correct. I know as I met Captain Knowles very recently on a trip to Havana. He had owned Oscar ten years ago when the seal was only a few months old. One day a neighbor allowed Oscar to escape from his pen in the Captain's garden and until a few months ago no more was seen...
Harvard Square pants prossers were bemoaning the fact that the war hit all their business. The Manhattan Market Co. use the Harvard seal as its trade mark, with VE RI TAS changed to PU RI TAS until the College objected...
Since the beginning of winter, two neighboring families had been wrangling over the second coming of Christ. One family firmly believed He would soon return to earth. All through the winter they kept their igloo ready for Him, kept their seal spears sharpened, their fishing nets mended. Their larder was always stocked with meat and skins...
Oscar. In Miami, delighting jaded press agents at season's end, Oscar, a 175-lb. seal lost from the aquarium nine years ago, hopped into a Gulf Stream fishing boat, wolfed a mess of fish, was recaptured...
Eskimo life, the most difficult and the poorest on earth, is utterly concentrated upon getting enough food. Their food is seal, caribou, tea, above all, raw frozen fish. They like rotten food even better (it is spicier) but there are few limits to what they will swallow. They eat enormously-50 lb. of meat per day for a family and its dogs-and belch and hawk and cough and spit continuously when indoors...