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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Welcome, Nutria | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...vehement protest against the recent resolution by the National Student Association's staff committee to sever relations with the International Union of Students was registered last night by Lawrence M. Jaffa 2D, chairman of the NSA's Northern New England Regional Division, and a member of the four-man board appointed in December to consider NSA-IUS affiliation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regional NSA Group Hits Move to Cut IUS Relations | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

Veritas Films is looking for some older-looking Radcliffe and Harvard students who are interested in acting. Other candidates for positions in directing, writing, and filming are also invited to visit the company's new offices on Sever's top floor between 9 and 2 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of Today's News | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...trials of the debate for the Pasteur medal will take place Monday evening, January 22, at 8 o'clock in Sever 10. It was announced that contestants would be asked to give a five-minute speech on either side of the question: "Resolved, That France is justified in her present policy of collecting reparations from Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pasteur Debating Trials Monday | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...Association's Sever Hall studio, open to graduate and undergraduate members but not to Radcliffe students, was put "out-of-bounds" as far as life classes were concerned last year. This season, however, members hope to make arrangements with the University for live models...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Artists Exhibit Work in Robinson Show | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

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