Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Workshop production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" tonight. The HRW adaption of the Coward play, in which Tallulah Bankhead currently stars on Broadway, was made in 1945. Anna Prince '48, recently featured in "Amphitryon 38," Bob Miller '48, Harvard Dramatic Club president, Daniel Nichell '45, and Lydia Hind make up the four character cast...
...sorts of ancient monsters are jumbled together there. One is a horned reptile 36 feet long, which took 20 days to dig up. Another is a 98-foot creature that walked on its hind legs...
...home it must be different. Nelson's two cocker spaniels, Flash and Gooky, will block and tackle for dog biscuits. "And when you ask them what they do on Saturdays," Davey admits craftily, "They stand on their hind legs and pray...
...possible to enable the present human brain to be supported, in spite of excessive gravitation, by throwing man into the quadruped position, greatly strengthening the four legs, and at the same time pushing the head far backwards so as to distribute its weight evenly between the fore and hind legs. But what of the problem of providing hands? . . . My only suggestion is that the nose might be greatly elongated into a trunk equipped with delicate grasping instruments like fingers. It would probably be desirable to have two trunks, if not three. The eyes . . . would have to be projected well forward...
Modern Dinosaur? Are any dinosaurs still around? Ley tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...