Word: auk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There may be anthropoid apes in Venezuela, Ley says optimistically, and little furry men in Africa. Ley admits that the dodo, most extinct of birds, is gone for good-and so is the great auk...
...heron is a heron is a heron is an auk," said the eminent expert on aves, and even birds ought to know it. This sort of cheap attempt at evading truth blackens the name of ornithology and must be condemned by all responsible and intelligent people, students and faculty alike...
...Wavell's old rank of Commander in Chief in India went General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck ("The Auk"), veteran of the Indian and Middle East services. But the London communique announcing these changes added significantly...
...this, gentlemen, is a rare Australian Auk, an excellent illustration of the evolutionary development from the primitive lbis. It can be found in the offices of the CRIMSON where it was christened by Sally Rand, a'well-developed species of Home Sapiens, with the name of "UandL", a typographical term understood only by members of a select cult...
Substitutes In. Rommel's time out had permitted The Auk to rush up fresh reserves of men and matériel from Suez, Palestine, Syria and the rest of the Middle East. But the amount he could bring up was limited by what was available in those quarters. Any major reinforcements, ordered by General Auchinleck since the situation in Egypt became acute, will have to come from Britain or the U.S. and cannot be expected for two or three months...