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...places is smooth enough for a motor car to travel at top speed. Thus Dr. Andrews found that the Mongolian wild ass attains a speed of 40 m.p.h., the wolf 36 m.p.h., the antelope 60 m.p.h. Once from his moving car he shot a running buck, completely severing a hind leg. On three legs the maimed animal kept running at 25 m.p.h. for five miles, then escaped...
Once the party started to map a mirage. Another time they saw marmots pair off, stand "erect on their hind legs, grasping each other with their front paws, and dance slowly about exactly as though they were waltzing." Once a car partially sank in quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted...
...previous holders of the Norton Professorship are Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Heathcote Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University; Arthur M. Hind, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London; Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik...
...History of the Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals," now being exhibited in Cambridge, contains informal glimpses into the college careers of Harvard graduates who have long since become famous, Covering the shows since 1844, the book proves that many a student who wore a ballet skirt, or capered as the hind legs of a horse, may survive to become celebrated in the world of arts or affairs after graduating from Pudding theatricals...
...with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt. Fagan's boat, the shark attacked again, was harpooned to prove the story...