Word: genus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of the automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
...English are serving horseflesh now [TIME, April 27]. The question comes to mind, why make it still worse with a name like that?...Me, I love a piece of good meat for dinner, but flesh...I'd never touch the stuff. If they ever start serving the genus Equus in America, let's call it Filly Mignon...
...Migawd," groaned Mr. Brown, "that you should say that to me." For if any one man has an intimate knowledge of the genus hokinsoniensis it is he. From Bronxville to Winnetka and from Wellesley to Butte Heights he has trod the boards with a dinner jacket for his buskin and a water pitcher for his scenery. The immediate result of his expeditions was the spread of the gospel of the drayma; a less immediate but just as laudable one in his newest book, "Accustomed...
...foundling in question is presumably a genus Ectopistes migratorius, colloquially known as a passenger pigeon, although University experts called into conference late yesterday were not agreed as to its exact status...
...malaria parasite is generally carried by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which breed in marshes and dead pools...