Word: eland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round-the-world broadcasting cruise of Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord with a diving bell of his own design. After graduation in 1935, he became a professional diver, worked on several successful salvaging jobs, brought up nothing but an 1851 penny from the hulk of the West M or eland which sank in Lake Michigan in 1854. He started experimenting with helium mixtures in a decompression chamber at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...
...Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head of the family implores his kin to have no quarrels, which might put a curse on the net and drive the turtles away. The ba-Ila of Africa are certain that if a person is discontented with his portion of eland meat but does not speak out, his kin will suffer from goitre and wens on the head...
...hard feelings. As the current Dick Eland's wife, I might tell you for data on heredity that Grandson Dick Bland picks his nose at table, but has all the other qualities of lovableness and generosity attributed to Silver Dick also. For instance, in a St. Joseph, Mo. hospital lay Silver Dick ill with typhoid and considerably nettled thereof when a green young interne attempted to minister to him. For days the young medico tried to please, but as he rushed into the room in answer to yells was immediately retreated by more bellows of rage and helplessness...