Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have shot him as long as 12 feet. He is an object of abject terror among the island natives because of his habit of devouring his food with ferocious nocturnal noises. He is fairly easy to hunt, being deaf. He is, scientists believe, a cousin of the smaller monitor lizard (ravager of crocodile eggs) which the Smithsonian men hope to get in Africa; that is, of the family Varanus. If found he will be called Varanus komodensis, last of the great race of dinosaurs...
...caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...
...departures, but not they alone; those individuals who remain behind find themselves burdened by the necessity of doing double and even triple duty in the matter of classes; and monitorial slips come to bear even less than their customary relation to actual facts of attendance and more to the monitor's circle of acquaintance. Residences are juggled curiously; individuals who are commonly supposed to live in New York or perhaps Washington--and, in dead, spend their vacations there, succeed in establishing at University Hall temporary residences in outlandish places farther from Cambridge, and set out at an early date...
...Christian Science Monitor: "Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place in on a national basis...
...Concord (N. H.) Monitor: "This is an age of overemphasis and our country is in that regard a chief sinner. But if we are to sin in this way, it is pleasant and not overharmful to sin by thinking too much about and spending too much money upon, football...