Word: mam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mam," said Mrs. Bowden, "but I supposed...
Walker identified it as a pangolin, a rare, highly-specialized, prehensile-tailed mam mal which eats ants and termites. Because the natives of southern Asia think that it catches ants beneath its scales while pre tending to be asleep, they look upon it as a highly untrustworthy animal. According to one legend, whenever the pangolin answers a call made by a man in the forest, the man quickly meets with disaster. So far as Mr. Walker knew, Pandora is the only pangolin in captivity, certainly the only...
Explanation; Fm vechicular flow on Main St.; for "peak hour"; Fc=ditto on Cross St.;Lm=left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...
...hundred and thirty-eight different objects were finally selected, packed in special cases by Yamanaka & Co.'s two most expert packers, shipped to Boston on the Katsuragi Mam. A large proportion of the objects were uninsured. "Money does not interest us," the wealthy owners insisted. "What we want is to get our things back, uninjured...
...Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right, thank-you-mam. . . . Pete won't care much. She's kissed everbody they is aready . . . and I'll stand there and watch them go down and they'll die lookin up and bein afraid...