Word: mastodone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From mastodon to mice has been the tale of Boylston Hall's degradation. Built in the ivy-covered year 1857, it housed the chemical laboratories, the anatomical museum, and something called the New Jersey Mastodon. This latter exhibit proved a bad start, for the bones had been put together inexpertly and became a laughing stock in mastodonic circles. Reassembled, it has long since migrated to another part of the University, and the anatomical museum has gone in town to the Medical School...
...seems to us that since the prehistoric days when some insignificant mastodon up and slew in combat the mighty tyrannosaurus rex, the favorite has taken a licking. Look at Goliath, for example. All we know about him is that he was "of great size" and a "champion of the Philistines." Obviously he was a good man, if a bit unpopular withal. And then up steps, that little upstart of a David and overthrows him by means that even a Yaleman wouldn't sink to. Goliath is undoubtedly one of the most abused characters in history, just because his enemies happened...
...best forward bulwarks in the recent history of the two institutions. When the cannonading starts at 2 o'clock the Blue and Gold wall will be complete from stem to stern, including 250 pound Gene Flathmann who is to mammoth Vern Miller what the Tyranausourous Rex was to the mastodon...
...never been admitted by Japan. Last week the world was astounded to hear Japan admit it. With perhaps the greatest loss of face in modern Japanese history, the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language mouthpiece of the Japanese Foreign Office, permitted itself to say that "ideas of overcoming this mastodon of nations must have little more appeal even to the most sanguine of soldierly minds...