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...grotesque entomological observation reported last week by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, U.S. scientist now working in the Argentine to improve local health: Certain night-flying moths there fly to the eyes of horses and suck the tears that their attacks cause. The same moths will settle on the skin of a sweating horse and drink at the salty perspiration. Hence, Dr. Shannon believes, the moths seek salt in the tears also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tear-Drinking Moths | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial to her late husband, Afric explorer Carl Akeley. The memorial is a stoutly fenced and protected park with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gorilla Sanctuary | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...themes had preoccupied the attention of many of the most absurd artists; one was Death, the other was Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Novel materials for expressing alleged thoughts were few in number; the most noteworthy was a three dimensional drawing, or skeleton sculpture, of a she-wolf giving suck to two small boys. The lines of the she-wolf's body were indicated in copper wire; her mammary glands were represented by door stops. Of the other exhibits a few may be briefly described as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independence Days | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...humorous, dynamic statesman is Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Last week he could suck his eternal plump cigar contentedly and even smugly over a sheaf of treasury reports. They showed that, with less than a month to go before the fiscal year ends on March 31, there is every prospect that the daring jugglery embodied in Mr. Churchill's present budget (TIME, April 18) will indeed enable him to make ends meet at his estimated total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Odd Millions | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Foils: M. R. Berliner '28 defeated. Lavine (B. U.) 5-4, Suck (B. U.) defeated J. S. Oettinger '30, 5-3, D. I. Modell '30 defeated Lavine (B. U.) 5-2, C. B. Hollister '29 defeated Woolfson (B. U.) 5-2. Modell defeated Suck (B. U.) 5-2, Woolfson (B. U.) defeated M. N. Copeland '29 5-3, Hollister defeated Lavine (B. U.) 5-4, Woolfson (B. U.) defeated Berliner 5-4, Holister defeated Suck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWORDSMEN TAKE 6 TO 3 VICTORY FROM B. U. | 3/8/1928 | See Source »

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