Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
...Nuremberg last week one whom they hail as "Our King"-the onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. He, clad in a field-gray uniform, spike-helmeted, reviewed with Prince Oscar of Prussia (rep resenting Wilhelm of Doom) and the great Feldmarschall von Mackensen (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924) a mammoth parade of several thousand former Imperial officers and Reichswehr troops...
...Berlin last week a further manifestation of post-War pacifism came to light with the opening of a great anti-War exhibit, featuring mammoth pacifist cartoons by virile German Trench-Artist Otto...
...Bled, the summer capital of Yugoslavia. There, Queen Marie of Rumania settled down for a visit with her daughter, young Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation to whose citizens her face is familiar through mammoth cosmetic advertisements and syndicated press matter-the U. S. Meanwhile King Ferdinand of Rumania set out to visit Paris, Switzerland, Rome, the Vatican. Despatches reported an allegedly not serious clash between potent bands of Bulgarian bandits and Rumanian frontier guards at Aflar and Dobrudja. One Eva Maneva, little known outside...
...Arizona, Professor Byron Cummings of the state university refused to comment on the efficacy of a divining rod (a wishbone-shaped stick with a wooden thimbleful of "certain chemicals" at the fork) by which one of his geologists, one Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been...