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Word: boa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note: Yeah, boa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Herpetologists have recently decided that the Boa Constrictor should be called Constrictor constrictor. I have decided that it should not. Two can play at that game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urbanity's Insanity | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rediscovered Continent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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