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Word: dodo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparatus because they didn't need it; there were few ground enemies to zoom away from. But when man (first the Maoris, then the whites) arrived in New Zealand, bringing along dogs, cats and rats, the flightless birds had a tough time. Some went the way of the dodo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News from Lake Te Anau | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Navy: A "Dodo...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Backfield Coach Nelson Was Here Before . . . With Harmon and West fall | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...Game Hunter Willy Ley* has returned from safari. Having tracked his prey through the dank undergrowth of large public libraries, he has put his trophies on exhibition in a newly published book, The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn (Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Romantic Zoologist | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

There may be anthropoid apes in Venezuela, Ley says optimistically, and little furry men in Africa. Ley admits that the dodo, most extinct of birds, is gone for good-and so is the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Romantic Zoologist | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Tighteners? A few days later, when the Chemical Society held a second regional meeting at St. Louis, its president, Dr. Charles Allen Thomas of Monsanto Chemical Co., gave his flock a timely talking to. He did not come right out and call the chemists dodos, but he warned them that overspecialization (the nemesis of the dodo) might make their science stagnate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Don't Be a Dodo | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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