Word: loft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed, the name "prenty." Queensland has ocean-going crocodiles, second cousins of lizards, 33 ft. long, largest on earth. It has huge monitor lizards which can run, swim, climb facilely. The largest monitor lizards known are savage "dragons" on the East Indian islands Komodo, Rintja and Flores. They attain loft. lengths. There is good reason to assume that the scary "prenty" is an Australian monitor...
...year ago Loft, Inc. lost $260,000 during the half. Since then its new management, under jut-jawed Charles G. Guth, has taken it in hand. The purity of Loft's candies has been strongly advertised, and the value of its $1 dinner. For this half it earned $219,000. The Waldorf System, Inc. (restaurant subsidiary) earned $604,000 compared with $592,000. Bickford's chain showed $372,000 against...
...experiences of many a small boy (like himself) whose weekly chore before the electric-blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward...
Last month the only female California condor in captivity, and one of the very few condors now alive anywhere, stretched her broad black wings to their loft. utmost and otherwise behaved proudly. She had laid...
...read that headline, he boiled with rage. It referred to his church. And he was sure that anyone reading the headline would believe that he was accused of larceny. To be sure, the news story made it clear that someone else had stolen the furs from the organ loft, where they had been secreted. And the man arrested for the theft revealed that two of the skins were not yet dry, indicating they had been trapped out of season. It was also made clear that Pastor Schoenfeld, who was known to trade in furs as a sideline to preaching...