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Word: camels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Lima, Peru, a man, drunk & sleepy, fumbled at the latch of an enclosure at the zoo. He wanted to go to sleep. So did a camel in the enclosure, and killed the man. No one knew the man's name. (Camels bite as well as kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Camel v. Man | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Camel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Swims | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, Prince Albert tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Biggest Advertisers | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Ismet's train reached the end of the new line last week, he descended to the platform, stern and imposing, to accept without moving a muscle of his face the homage of some thousands of rural townsmen. They, well-meaning, slaughtered many sheep, and one gangling camel in honor of the new railway and Ismet Pasha. To make the celebration more costly, bright shawls and valuable rugs were dipped in blood from the slaughtered animals, then burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: New Railway | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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