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Word: clawless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bite & Hop | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...coast, the lobster season was in full swing. From now until August, the goletas (sloops) would bring into Valparaiso some 150,000 lobsters-the island's one cash crop. Shipped to Santiago or flown over the Andes to Buenos Aires, the langostas (unlike the Maine lobster, they are clawless) would bring fancy prices ($2 to $3) in the toniest restaurants of the Chilean and Argentine capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: In Selkirk's Steps | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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