Word: spoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jungle. Today, while the Indies wait upon The Netherlands' reaction to the pact, a truce-but no peace-prevails in Indonesia. The Indonesian Army, led by hotheaded young General Soedirman, continues to snipe at units of the 92,000 Dutch troops under Lieut. General S. H. Spoor. Actually, in Java the Dutch hold only three small areas: the cities of Surabaya, Semarang and a corridor two to six miles wide connecting and including Batavia and Bandung. Of Java's 51,000 square miles, the Dutch hold perhaps 380 square miles. In Sumatra the Dutch control three areas...
Place of Death. The old men said: "It was our wish that the grave should never be found, but why should we remain silent now?" They told how Lobengula fled only when the battle was clearly lost. By his order, his tribesmen did not follow, lest their spoor disclose the king's whereabouts to the white man. When Lobengula learned that his people had surrendered, he built a great fire and threw upon it the leather ring of his authority, his girdles, his sporran of blue monkey skin. Then he said to the chosen few who were with...
...spoor led the investigators across the Atlantic, where, they said, more agents had received over 1,000 blank immigration permits for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris. These sold from $145 to $2,000. All told, one Deputy charged, the ring's total receipts had reached $50,000,000 for 15,000 Jews admitted to Bolivia...
Seton's fellow beings, wolves and beavers and blue jays, have rewarded him well. Last week, with Trail of an Artist-Naturalist, nature lovers could follow Seton's pattering spoor across 80 years, through the wilds of Canada, the studios of Paris, the publishing business of Manhattan. Young Seton grew up in Ontario. He wanted to be a naturalist, but his father ("the most selfish person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London...
...stone some huge three-toed tracks, a foot or more long. Nobody will have to tell him they are dinosaur tracks-his atavistic hackles will rise at the sight. Inside the house (if his wife has really been doing her stuff) he will be confronted with another petrified spoor, set in a vertical slab under the mantelpiece. At that point in will bounce his wife, to inform him that the footprints are indeed dinosaur tracks, real dinosaur tracks, and cost only...