Word: antlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
Boston Society of Biologists. I. "Chorionic Gonadotropin and Luteal Secretion in Primates." Professor F. L. Hisaw. II. "On Seasonal Changes in the Testes of Deer and Their Relationship to the Growth of Antlers." Professor G. G. Wislocki. III. "Biochemical Aspects of Antler Growth." Dr. Joseph C. Aub, Regina McLean, and Dorothy M. Tibbets. Biological Laboratories, Divinity Avenue, 8 P. M. Wednesday, November 19. --Harvard University Gazette...