Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...This typically Mexican scene," cabled esthetic Herald Tribune Correspondent Jack Starr-Hunt, "was capped by a military band that played soft, doleful music, contrasting sharply with the brilliance of the blue sky overhead...
Small boys who wish to go rabbit-hunting must ask a farmer's permission before venturing into his thickets. Likewise, those who wish to hunt apes and elephants in King Albert's 500,000-acre game preserve in Belgian Congo will have to ask permission of a committee whose personnel was announced last week by King Albert's Ambassador to the U. S., the Prince de Ligne...
...whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...
...discovered 29 years ago when a cowboy, one Jim White, saw what he thought was volcanic smoke. The "smoke" was the effect of flocks of bats emerging for their evening insect hunt. The Government made the cave site a National Monument seven years ago, marking off 720 acres. The underground halls spread farther than that; how far, Explorer Nicholson will try to learn...
Last week it was announced that a tract unlike anything since the New Forest has been created in the U. S. Not kings but rich sportsmen will ride there, hunting foxes instead of stags. They have formed an organization, Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation. They plan to raise $3,000,000. Memberships are $10,000 each. In Sumner County, Tennessee, they have bought about 15,000 acres (23 sq. mi.) of land to gallop over-rolling grass country, dotted with farms. They plan an endowment for the land's upkeep in perpetuity. It is the biggest tract made safe...