Word: horned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...puddles. Too cumbersome to migrate, herds of sauropods huddled in the dwindling water, died like flies. A dozen or more last survivors perished in one small pool. Clay and sandstone covered the bones. In the course of ages the pool bottom became a hilltop in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. A rancher stumbled on the spot, saw some outcroppings, informed Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
Engaged. Richard Leo Simon, 34, Manhattan publisher (Simon & Schuster: cross word puzzles; The Story of Philosophy; Trader Horn); and Andrea Heinemann, 25. his office telephone operator...
...three-day trial brought out that Don's car had no lamps, license, horn. Sportsman Don assumed full responsibility for taking the fatal trial run, said that he had done so at the suggestion of his young mechanic, that he knew that the steering gear was faulty...
...Mayo is a large siren. Its piercing screech, audible for miles, heralds the break of hot news. Long ago a city ordinance was passed forbidding use of the siren and the publishers rarely sound it nowadays. But when some world-shaking event takes place, La Prensa's horn shrills and a Prensa office boy trots downtown to pay the fine before its echo has died away...
Near Klagenfurt, Austria. Peter Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...