Word: ibex
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...whole dreadful business comes to an epic climax in another fine scene in which cad Boone and bounder Peter Lawford fight it out with bullwhips, while on a crag high above them, the bush bobby stands like an ibex and dispassionately sees that justice is done...
...following hunt was a successful one, the natives believed that the stone was invested with supernatural powers. They began to use it either as a means of insuring good fortune, or of giving thanks for a successful hunt. This theory explains the numerous animals, which include a horse, an ibex, a deer, and a woolly rhinoceros...
Today, the pebble is scratched beyond all recognition. The surface is covered with several hundred fine lines, and scientists couldn't tell an ibex from a rhinoceros until they called in an artist...
...remainder of the Convention's 21 proteges: Abyssinian ibex. Northern hartebeest, wild ass, mountain zebra, whale-headed stork, bald-headed ibis, white-breasted guinea fowl and all elephants with tusks no heavier than five kilograms...
...Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's Nobel Laureate, speeding into the far north after a summer of climbing mountains ibex-wise, reached a point on Hudson Bay only 350 mi. from the North Magnetic Pole in time to take cosmic ray readings during the solar eclipse. His mountain-top observations in many latitudes had led him to suspect that cosmic rays are not pulsations from outer space, as Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks, but streams of electrons probably originating in Earth's atmosphere. The nearer the Equator, he observed, the less was the rays' intensity...