Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green toad with a semi-human crested head making a horrid...
...emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made himself master of Manchuria before the breakup of the Empire in 1911, and then developed streaks of patriotism. He was extremely proud of his nickname, "The Old Tiger," which originated in his drooping mustaches and his striped mandarin robes.* In the Tiger Room of his Mukden palace he kept enormous stuffed Manchurian tigers, served cups of what was supposed to be hot tigers' blood to his guests. More important, he was one of the shrewdest, wiliest politicians...
...threatened to go to court unless he removed his private zoo from its present site, just within the stone wall at the public roadside, to a remote part of his estate. Mr. Candler began collecting animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight bears of assorted colors, monkeys, chimpanzees, Japanese red-faced apes...
...junior varsity and Yale's freshmen had won their races, Harvard got away first with Gerard ("Killer") Cassedy, son of a onetime Cambridge plumber, setting a long slow beat that his men picked up smoothly behind him. At the half mile, Yale, at Stroke John H. ("Tiger") Jackson's faster beat, had caught up and got a deck's length lead. What happened then made it clear how the race would end. Yale hung even for an instant, then dropped back. Killer Cassedy had not raised his beat but the Harvard boat, with a splendid run between...
...first and second rounds were about even In the third, Sharkey's left hand, quick and dangerous as a tiger's paw, be gan to flick Schmeling's nose. It nicked more frequently in the fourth and fifth, jarring Schmeling's jaw, stabbing his right eye. Schmeling began to come in more savagely in the sixth and seventh which was just what Sharkey, a smart counter-fighter, wanted. He moved away, boxing beautifully, stiffening his left arm against Schmeling's head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several...