Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...variants. But it does succeed in classifying these so that they may be readily recognized if met. Draconist Stokes does not really believe there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite and does not press his own ingenious theory until the very end. There he also says a word about four modern dragons? Respectability, Bigotry, Cant and Mah Jongg...
...scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), that it was split in two volcanically. the eastern half submerging, peaks of the western half (Antilia) remaining today as the Antilles (West Indies). Alleged cranial similarities between natives of Venezuela and Canary Islanders, also between fossil flors and fauna of France and the U.S., constitute other "evidence...
...months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras and scientific eyes will be brought to bear upon African fauna and flora in the interests of Science...
...heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME...
...object will be to bring back specimens of the fauna of that region, still largely unknown. The specimens will go to the Field Museum in Chicago, of which Stanley Field is now President...