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...hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird perched atop the Q? What kind of fish are swimming in the water trapped by the upper part of the X? What is that spotted amphibian sliding down the N? Answers: a quetzal; an X-ray fish; a newt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Wonders For the Young | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...next 40 years, Trippe and Pan Am played a central role in nearly every major development in commercial aviation. He pioneered the use of the great amphibian "clippers" used on transatlantic and transpacific flights prior to World War II. In 1955 Pan Am was the first U.S. company to order the commercial jets that would cut flying time in half and make air travel the most popular form of mass transportation. Eleven years later, Trippe bought the first wide-bodied jets, now the workhorses of long-distance aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sky Rider | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Harvard's water polo team will dive into the depths of its first varsity season tonight at Blodgett Pool, trying to out-amphibian the University of New Hampshire starting...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: Water Polo to Debut Tonight | 9/17/1980 | See Source »

...want to rerun it many times so it'll settle in your memory. His brain loses 500 million years of evolution in the process, and in the following minutes in the movie, Arkin acts out all of human evolutionary history--from the very first algae, through the many amphibian and primate stages, with a stop at Ramapithecus along the way, faster and faster until he discovers sexuality, and then language. The narrator to this Biology-book scenario notes a sudden pause in Simon's euphoria--probably about the time of the Original Sin--and concludes that "... there's too much...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Too Many Hats Too Soon | 3/18/1980 | See Source »

...there is no me. I do I not exist." "I beg your pardon?" The actor draws conspiratorially close to the anthropomorphic amphibian and, with many a wary glance over both shoulders, whispers: "There used to be a me. But I had it surgically removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sellers Strikes Again | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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