Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsburgh's Dodo...
Last week Iowans could thumb derision back at Illinoisians across the Mississippi. At Iowa City Iowa had the only stuffed replica in the world of a dodo...
Portuguese explorers found the dodo on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius when they reached there in 1505. The sailors considered the dodo a very stupid bird (doudo is Portuguese for stupid, foolish). It was larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very...
Director Homer Ray Dill of the Uni versity of Iowa Museum, who originated college courses of taxidermy and museum work, several years ago conceived the idea of restoring a dodo in the round, as a tour de force in taxidermy (see cut). His dodo with its relatively short wings, its chunky body and its tufted tail looks like a monstrously big duckling with a gull's bill. Actually the dodo, despite its looks, was a kind of pigeon...
...Dodo So-&-So. Against the opposition's clamor, Senator Reed began to make more specific explanations: "Now, an appeal to the horse sense of the Senate. When the American delegates to the London Conference were named, the British, Japanese, Italian and French Ambassadors undoubtedly reported back to their Governments the character of the delegates. It is open to assume that communications of this character were likewise made by Ambassador Dawes. He might have said: 'Sir What's His Name Snooks is a very shrewd man. He deals very closely and has to be watched...