Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birds and reptiles have always abounded in the Andaman Islands, a series of lush green mountaintops dotting the Bay of Bengal. But up to 25 years ago the mammal population of the Andamans was a poor minority. The only wild four-footed friends the island Pygmies could boast were a...
Ike Eisenhower heard about the little-known Humphrey from his chief talent scout, General Lucius Clay. Clay first spotted Humphrey during World War II while Humphrey was serving with quiet effectiveness on the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory Council. Clay saw Humphrey again in postwar Germany; Clay was...
In 1929 he linked Hanna's ore and coal mines with a sheet-steel plant in Detroit and Ernest Weir's assortment of steel plants in the Pittsburgh area, forming the National Steel Corp. Hanna owns a controlling interest (27%) in National Steel, and in 1951 earned $6...
It was a time when the most ordinary variations of sound rang out like cymbals. Along Pennsylvania Avenue the hammers beat together a cubistic forest of grandstands for the inauguration. A friend spotted Mrs. Dean Acheson-who is accustomed to a solidly booked social calendar-wandering into a movie. Dean...
A wind blew up soon after Bombard left the Arakaka, and the rest of the voyage was, comparatively speaking, a breeze. For two weeks more he sailed alone. Then he met a small Dutch steamer, spent half an hour aboard. Early one morning last week, 63 days out of the...