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Word: komodo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Treadfellows. In Philadelphia, a classified advertisement in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society offered to trade a "live adult Komodo Dragon for Chrysler fire engine and three snowshoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...miles away aboriginal Kubus still live in trees. There are modern textile factories on Java but. close by, a tiger may feast on a wild pig or water buffalo. Elephants trumpet in the rain forest; single-horned rhinos move like tanks through the deltaic swamps; the 10-ft. Komodo lizard looks out from thick underbrush like a dragon from the pages of Arthurian romances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...hundred-year-old lizards, named Komodo Dragons will be shipped to the Bronx Zoo. They are descendants of the Australian Dinosaur family and will give special performances (goat-eating, etc.) for the Press every Saturday for the next three weeks. CRIMSON editors have been invited and thus will not publish on those days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lizards Will Arrive | 5/6/1955 | See Source »

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