Word: convex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn with full-blood aurochs, giving three-quarter blood animals. Through successive generations the temporary American bison strain could be practically bred out, its virility merely tiding over the true Europeans. Like American bison, the aurochs has long legs, massive shoulders covered in winter with shaggy dark-brown hair, convex forehead. Both species make fine rugs, steaks...
...Class One--those young women who peer at the world through spectacles, convex, concave, or prismatic: who wear the good old-fashioned shirtwaist, and the skirt with the scalloped hem line: who discourse learnedly on economics and classical philology; and who face life behind the bulwark of a summa. We know there must be such, because we have heard of them. We have, however, yet to meet...