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Selected for being the nearest modern relative of the dinosaur, one of the 250 extant Indian rhinos was cornered by Miss Lane in the Bronx Zoo. She first made a six-inch job, then a two-foot, then a four-foot, and finally a life-size. She was dissuaded from going on up the scale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO BRONZE INDIAN RHINOS PLACED AT BIOLOGICAL LABS | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz Personified | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...would not say what he paid for the egg but a fair guess is $10,000. It is about a foot long, about ten inches across, ivory-colored, pockmarked by sand and insects. Much bigger than the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, its shell is ⅛ in. thick, weighs 6 lb., must have weighed 24 lb. when the mother bird laid it. Aepyornis titan did not become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elephantine Egg | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...flush! Pressure in the ears. A yell, and they are cleared. The altimeter hand is late, for we are 1,000 feet ahead of it. At 10,000 feet I can make out land and water. Lloyd's Neck looks like the head of a dinosaur and the next peninsula is like a giant cypress tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wings of the Morning | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...talk, as men never hear them, about clothes, nail polish, money ("a woman's best protection is a little money of her own"), sex ("I'm just a frozen asset," says the play's lone virgin), nursing babies ("ouch! he's got jaws like a dinosaur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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