Word: mastodon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monroe, N. Y., contributed to the nation's store of mastodon bones, skulls, teeth...
That faint trumpeting that dies away Like the lowing of monstrous star-cattle Marks the passing of the mastodon...
...diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...Manhattan, excavators for an apartment building turned up bones and "milk teeth" of a baby mastodon, the first of his race to be found on that island...
...Followers, of theatrical despatches for many weeks have been burrowing through masses of statistics and superlative, relative to this dramatic mastodon which was making its way from Europe under the direction of Max Reinhardt. To these reports there was a dual reaction: 1) natural curiosity; 2) the peculiarly American scepticism that demands a demonstration. Many spectators went to the theatre with imaginations keyed so high that they were almost bound to be disappointed...