Word: americanus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birds was the Pelicanus Americanus (American White Pelican), an ugly creature with a long double chin; the other was the Phoenicopterus Ruber (American Flamingo), a crimson-colored monstrosity with a long hose-like neck...
...Massachusetts and the shad to Delaware, so is the lobster to Maine. Found only on the Atlantic coast from Henley Harbor, Labrador, to Cape Hatteras, N. C., the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is at its best off the coast of Maine, grows larger than its cousins down South. This advantage, upon which Maine's lobster industry was built, last week threatened to ruin it. Lobstermen setting their traps for the new season with halibut, herring and codfish heads anxiously questioned one another for news from Washington, where Maine's Congressmen Wallace Humphrey White Jr. and John Edward Nelson...
...likely he would live long and some of his characteristics should be preserved for posterity. The Martha's Vineyard Rod & Gun Club voted to find him a mate, appealed to Professor Gross. Dr. Gross had recently returned from Wisconsin where he studied prairie chickens (Tympanuchus americanus), found them so similar to the heath-hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that no eye less sharp than an expert's could tell one from the other. Both are pinnated grouse. A prairie chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate indeed. The State of Wisconsin agreed to ship...
...typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy in name. George Follansbee Babbitt was recognized as a world synonym for Homo Americanus when, last week, Author Lewis was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, biggest & best literary honor on earth. Tall, spindly, brass-haired, pock-marked Sinclair Lewis was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minn. His father, a country physician, had migrated from Connecticut, so at the proper age young...
...citizens "work for work's sake," pointing out that U. S. labor unions work tirelessly for shorter hours. What, then, supplies the U. S. urge to work? "In the last analysis," observed Le Temps, "the American overworks to overproduce and thereby overenrich himself. The super-assiduity of Homo Americanus springs from his lust for Power...