Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly, shot its snaky neck in his direction and slithered out of sight. Concluding that his rifle would be "about as useful as citronella," Explorer Miller fled...
...apiece on the next two. He dashed off Mosquitoes, was halfway through his third novel, Sartoris, when something happened. He was writing about his own country when suddenly "I discovered that writing was a mighty fine thing," he says; it enabled you "to make men stand on their hind legs and cast a shadow." Sartoris was rejected...
...down the evolutionary scale of mammals are the marsupials (pouch-bearers). The Western Hemisphere's only pouch-bearer, the opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a gestation of about 13 days, are only one-half inch long at birth, without fully-developed hind legs, sans eyes, sans ears or reflexes. A litter of 18 weighs about 1/15 oz., fits easily into an ordinary teaspoon (see cut). Because the opossum is born at such an early stage in its development it makes glad the hearts of embryologists...
...pull Hilda up again it took eight men from the Department of Parks, a derrick truck, block & tackle. Attendants said she had no bones broken but she refused to move her hind legs. A sling was rigged to hold up her body and give them a rest...
...Paris, Joseph Pacreau, 34, was visiting the polar bears in the Vincennes Zoo. Because there are no bars in the Zoo, only way to see the polar bears is to peer into their pool from a steep rock bank high enough so no bear can stand on its hind legs and claw the customers. While Joseph Pacreau peered, one bear heaved itself awkwardly on to the back of another bear, got hold of Joseph Pacreau's arm, hung on till a keeper arrived and rapped it smartly on the nose...