Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admitting the difficulty of bringing a cow, or any large beast, into Manhattan the Livestock division, nevertheless, was disappointing. There was only one entry this year: a dozen diminutive dinosaria (spotted newts), which dozed unconcernedly through the whole affair...
Gentle Unicorn. The unicorn, King of (nonexistent) Beasts, was reputed to be a graceful, strong animal that could not be taken by force. But like the "gentil knights" of the troubadours' verses, it would lay its head in a virgin's lap. A pity, says Ley, to believe that the unicorn is only an ugly rhinoceros, dimly and distantly seen. Perhaps the noble beast had a pleasanter prototype. Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a "unicorn" (single...
...untied, comes to Cambridge today, and a Crimson victory over them would definitely be received as an upset among the U.S. soccer fraternity. With All-American John Hogan at center halfback and only one rookle on their starting eleven, the physical education students play a hard-running game and beast a defense which last year yielded only one goal to opponents...
...experienced what I am told is the customary sense of embarrassment at having a fellow-creature act as one's beast of burden, but mine was such a wiry specimen, weighing as he did well over 80 Ibs. and amazingly fleet for a man of 60 with tuberculosis, that I quickly overcame my compunctions...
Next to the ox that pulls his plow, the Mexican peon's most valued possession is his wistful little burro. Last week, the sturdy little beast that carries the nation's backland freight, causes many of its automobile accidents, adorns its literature and enriches its profanity, supplied the theme for the song leading Mexico's hit parade. It was called My Little Burro Doesn't Want to Go, and it was written by a young man named Ventura Romero who had never ridden a burro in his life...