Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall, and the mystic snake dance of the Mariari cult...
Catholics last week predicted that the red hat of a cardinal awaits Archbishop Mooney if the U. S. gets its fifth Prince of the Church in time. Tall, lofty of brow, matter-of-fact, he is a shrewd master of church and business law, a rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition...
Physically as well as financially is Consolidated linked to Steam. Just as power companies exchange power over interconnecting lines, so Consolidated and Steam are interconnected for exchange of steam. Manhattan's tall towers need most steam on early winter mornings when electric loads are light. So to New York Steam Consolidated has long lent steam from the boilers in its generating stations. In summer New York Steam returns the compliment. Steam's all-time peak load was Feb. 9, 1934, when the mercury in Manhattan thermometers shriveled to 13° below zero...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
Capping the rise of the wet grassy stretches is the tall Civil War monument. Around the crest are a siege gun and a captured tank. And lettered on the base of the column is an inscription barely visible through the dark of the rain...