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...Basenji, a breed recently recognized by the English Kennel Club, are dogs (which cannot bark nor yelp, but only softly "grooo") used in the African Congo for tracking game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mrs. Dodge's Dog Show | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Handsome, brusque James S. Knowlson, chairman and president of Stewart-Warner Corp. is a sensitive man. For weeks he listened to politicians and labor leaders yelp that big business was holding back defense by refusing to cooperate with the Government, asking huge profits. Last week he got sore, lashed out a snappy (17-paragraph, onepage) letter of explanation to his employes. Said he: "There has been a lot of bunk about industry. . . . If your friends ask you what your company has done so far, you can tell them this: Your company has bid (on a competitive basis) on ten millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Profitless Defense | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...collapsed to the floor, with arrows sticking out of him like he were a pin-cushion. Doc jumped toward him. 'Get me a red-hot poker,' he yelled. Then he grabbed at the arrows and yanked them out one by one. Brandy didn't let out a yelp, and only the muscles in his powerful shoulders, set hard as rocks, showed what he was going through. He was getting groggy, the deadly curare poison was getting him. Butch brought the poker, and Doc shoved it into the wounds. 'Cauterize them,' he grunted. There was a hissing sound, and Stefani almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...limited to projects noncompetitive with private enterprise. That made Secretary Ickes yelp, because it ruled out a lot of power projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: For 1940 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: On Grassy Mountain | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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