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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sports pages this spring have been full of stories about how Cunningham's legs were burned in a school-house fire so badly that doctors did not expect him ever to walk again. When Bonthron was a child, he encountered a live wire while climbing in an apple tree. The result was a burn which left a large scar on his left leg. Like Venzke, who used to run to work every day for training, Bonthron goes everywhere on his own two feet. He owns no automobile, dislikes streetcars because "they stop at every corner." In racing against Cunningham...
...opening this week the distinguished visitors' attention will be especially directed to a baby fringe-eared oryx antelope, a matchie tree kangaroo which looks like a small brown bear and a Hycean tiger from Turkestan...
...climbed up on the stump of a pine-tree with one of those monster-radishes in one hand and a lump of hard soldiers' bread in the other, and joked, between mouthfuls...
...called Mrs. Sadlier to the police trudging along behind her. "Look there under that tree-something crouching-I think...
...waited until her 3-month-old child Harold partly emptied his bottle. Then Mrs. Watson Patrick tucked him in his crib under the tree at the edge of the tomato patch, wiped dribble from his lips, and left him for an hour to help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...