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...dream a of the Maintenance Department is no mail, and the dream of the Postman is no deer. But there must be mail and there must be a door to keep the mail in. The problem has been to get the mail in and to keep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Bit His Nails, Pounded His Nails But Couldn't Control the U. S. Mails | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...pencil to a map. Where his pencil landed he went and hung out his shingle. Wrote Lawyer "Richard Roe" from "somewhere in the Adirondacks": "I have been here almost one and one-half years and have earned a comfortable living. . . . During the fall I spend much time hunting deer and bear. In the summertime fishing for rainbow and brown trout, swimming and playing ball ... are some of my many enjoyments. ... I was initiated to the delights of square dancing and old-fashioned games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Adirondack Triumph | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Letters were sent by the directors to art dealers in the hope that the thief would try to dispose of the pictures. The statuette of a deer, stolen last Spring, has never been recovered, despite a nation-wide search...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Rembrandt Pictures Stolen From Fogg Museum; Second Theft in Year | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Evidence indicated that Pekin Man was 500,000 to 1,000,000 years old, since he was found with remains of bear, deer, rhinoceros, hyenas and rodents of the early Glacial Age. He also appeared to be a cannibal especially fond of eating from the head, since the heads discovered seemed to have been severed from their trunks. No traces of tools or fire were discovered. The third and fourth skulls found this year were buried ten feet lower than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Chou-Kou-Tien | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...75th birthday, at Yellow Springs, Ohio's onetime Senator Simeon Davison Fess proudly showed newshawks a stack of firewood he had sawed, said he was still working on his four-volume history of Ohio. Exulted he: "I work every day, sleep like a deer, eat like a bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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