Search Details

Word: aardvark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Time was when almost anyone who had shot an aardvark or stared at a commissar or eaten 327 doughnuts in 83 minutes could pick up extra cash lecturing to women's clubs. Real celebrities were hardly required to lecture; they just had to turn up and let themselves be stared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Less Staring, More Listening | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...early part of the picture includes some striking shots of animal life : a balding aardvark that spoons ants out of an anthill with a sticky pink tongue almost two feet long ; an immense gorilla that one moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...magazine, named the Aardvark, will first appear at registration in September. It will contain pictorial features as well as some serious and humorous writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yearbook Will Publish 'Avardvack' Next Year | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

Loeser said that the same board which handles the Yearbook will also publish the Aardvark. At present there is a great deal of time between our deadlines," he continued. "This magazine should help to maintain our interest all year and give us expanded coverage of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yearbook Will Publish 'Avardvack' Next Year | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

...point the rhino gets the upper hand; charging the truck, he topples it over on its side as if it were a baby Austin. Another highlight: a series of submarine close-ups of gigantic hippos lolling on the sandy bottom of a transparent pool. Weirdest animal is the aardvark, which has a squawk like a maddened calliope and the look of a dispirited rabbit sired by an anteater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Next