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...lions aren't so hard to picture," interposed Mr. Johnson. "They are muscle-pound and while fast in a sprint, tire quickly. After a heavy meal, also, they are slow and easy to stalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin Johnsons Describe Perils of Filming Elephants in African Jungles--"But Lions are Easy," is Their Verdict | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

...fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated God, King, Country, morals, treaties, debts, rents, interest, the laws and customs of centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...indirect effect of this corn stalk utilization is the prevention of pesty corn borer spread. Stover rotting in the fields carries the borer over from one growing season to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Corn Paper | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Modern Cincinnatus. This one, swart, short, mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks, too. Riding as a jockey himself, he had watched two faster horses wear each other out, then whipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Other Harvard canes, especially Hrvd No. 12.029, have not only produced much greater yields in tonnage per caballeria (33 1-2 acres) than Cristalina cane, but have in addition greatly expected that variety in actual sugar content and purity of juice in the stalk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBOUR EXPLAINS WORK BEING CARRIED ON BY HARVARD AT SOLEDAD PLANTATION | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

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