Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biographical Blather. Rowse is a noted writer of Elizabethan history and one of the few historians ever to invade what has clearly been marked out as literary terrain. This, plus the fact that 1964 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, allowed some small room for hope-not that his book would offer new material (there has been none discovered since 1931), but that it would somehow be intriguing and different. Alas, Rowse is no further along than his second chapter before it becomes clear that he is going to bog down in much of the traditional blather...
Explorer-scientists still use dog sleds frequently in terrain too rough for tractors or motor toboggans. New Zealand dog handlers have not only evolved a special breed of husky to withstand the world's crudest climate, but have even developed a new "language" that the dogs understand better than the "Mush!" used by old Yukon hands: to start the team, the handler cries "Wheet...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. To brighten the season, Walt Disney presents Tao the cat, Bodger the, bull terrier and Luath the Labrador retriever making their way home across 250 miles of rough Canadian terrain and straight into the affections of the young at heart...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. To brighten the season, Santa's Helper Walt Disney presents Tao the cat, Bodger the bull terrier and Luath the Labrador retriever making their way home across 250 miles of rough Canadian terrain, and straight into the affections of the young-at-heart...
...unique Automatic Electric four-wire switching system makes possible the reliable transmission characteristics which are so necessary in utility operation. Microwave radio is used in parts of the rugged terrain where pole line construction is impractical...