Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call, though faint, was strong enough to arouse the tame geese on the place. The old Toulouse gander sent back an answering challenge to his wild cousins, while his mates stretched out their necks and screamed to the top of their long throats. They rushed along the dark ground, beating their wings and tipping the grass with their toes, only to wheel pitifully and try again...
...stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with me and pet the kittens if he thinks they are so tame...
Wound up to such a pitch that even the medieval headsman's ax, reintroduced by Nazis, has begun to seem tame. German Justice, the official organ of Minister of Justice Dr. Franz Gürtner, called last week for a harsher German punishment to be known as "living death...
...friends; some of them were enthusiastic enemies. They arrived, in various stages of intoxication, exhaustion and disgust, sank further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone but his hostess. The golddigger, seeing that her dishonorable designs on the banker were hopeless, became honorable, which disappointed the professional Southerner. The pseudo-explorer, falsely thought to be Flora's lover, tried...
...omitted) Cotton $602,000 $611,000 Wheat 432,000 359,000 Barley 91,000 63,000 Tame Hay 724,000 536,000 Tobacco 240,000 179,000 Potatoes...