Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...fight to oust Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. It was partly the family connection that made him head of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust. It is not probable that, like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree or to traffic with a Chinese junk. A member of 18 clubs and seven directorates, including the board of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he can have contempt for the wildest blow on shore...
...Princeton we are under a double handicap--a dissyllabic name and a thin, closed vowel (i) with which to start. Consequently, we cannot rival either the quick bark of "Yale!" or the slow sonority of "Harvard!" From the standpoint of effective vocalization "Prince-ton!" is what our British cousins would call a fair washout. What to do about...
...University led a group of U. S. scientists and one 19-year-old Boy Scout out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela and into the mountains of Merida. Last week they were back in Manhattan with an assortment of rare or hitherto unknown birds and animals, including eight Andean dogs which bark like a cat's yowling, a little, spotted ocelot, foxes, iguanas, turkeys, macaws, lovebirds and 15 parrots...
...Bark, the hour of trial is sounding: Lampy's anxious fears are bounding...