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What the surveyors had failed to detect was the baleful presence of an invisible cliff dweller-a dragon widely believed by local villagers to have lived there at least since the Sung Dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Exorcising a Dragon | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...Harvard soccer team continues a season-long search for something resembling an offense this morning when it kicks off its Ivy schedule at 10:30 against perennial cellar-dweller Columbia at the Business School Field...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Booters Host Lions In Key Ivy League Opener | 10/13/1973 | See Source »

Citing evidence that black males die two years earlier than they did ten years ago, Pierce said, "it is more stressful to live in the ghetto than to live in a spaceship." The astronaut, unlike the ghetto dweller, can dream of the time when he will get out of his confinement, Pierce explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Psychiatrist Says Mass Media Shortens Life Span of Blacks | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...putting consumer pressure on the non-union growers and on the stores and institutions patronizing them. That struggle begins and ends with people. The laws as they stand are useless at best, strikes are expensive, and the ultimate recourse of the worker in the field is the city-dweller on the sidewalk...

Author: By Linda Roth, | Title: The Rural Proletariat of the Southwest | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

...midget has been identified as a Compsognathus corallestris, which, loosely translated from the Greek, means "long-jawed coral dweller." A shade over 15 in. high and only 49 in. long, the tiny reptile had a skeleton similar in construction to those of monster dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus, largest land animal ever to roam the earth. But corallestris hardly seems like a dinosaur at all. Whereas other dinosaurs lived on dry land or in swamps, corallestris made its home on offshore atolls. Like a heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Petite Monster | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

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