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...over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield. As he tires, he returns to his home range, begins to run in ever narrowing circles like a fox. At the kill, the hounds pile on their prey, often smother him before they have ripped him badly with their teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Texas Wolf Hunt | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Italian architecture. Soon she was reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her. Back in New York Reed dropped her a note: "Goodbye, my darling. I cannot live with you. You smother me. You crush me. You want to kill my spirit." He headed for Mexico to write up the Revolution. She went along as far as El Paso. He returned, went to Colorado to write up the Ludlow Massacre. She stayed in Manhattan, experimented with Mexican drugs. They were reconciled, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Continued Story | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Tallying four times in the last half the Varsity soccer team gathered strength to smother Tufts 5-0 here yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITE PACES BOOTERS TO 5-0 WIN OVER TUFTS | 10/15/1936 | See Source »

...sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from the scene in which Mrs. Bramson becomes hysterical with fright at being left alone in the house, hysterical with relief when her adored "Danny" comes back - to smother her with a cushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...Union Transfer Co., whose trucks run to North Platte, Neb. and the Twin Cities, for $150,000, develop it with some $450,000 more. In opposition, Keeshin, which also covers the territory, asserted the plan was not in the best public interest and that it was an attempt to smother competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Feast or Fight? | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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