Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...
...Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson...
Enclosed herein is a snapshot of a freak sheep that may be termed a "Unicorn." You will note that it has a horn on the end of its nose. This is a three-year-old ewe (female sheep), raised on the range in this district, Ely, Nev. The picture was taken in April 1936 and shows the animal after shearing. It's a freak and not a transplanted horn. Presumed the picture would be of interest to you. D. A. HUGHES...
...Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes on his brass coaching horn without which no fashionable affair of this kind is complete. Mrs. Dibble twirled her whip, and the coach tooled gaily toward Fifth Avenue...
...pace of a Freshman crossing Washington Street last Friday evening was greatly accelerated by the blast of an automobile horn. Engrossed in contemplation of Jubilees, he did not check his speed upon reaching the opposite curb until he had passed through a plate glass show window...