Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch name for this monster lizard is boeaja darat (land crocodile). Science calls him varanus komodensis, identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...
England has faced this fact, and the perils arising from it, with high resolve. Last week the careful Christian Science Monitor reported the appointment of a committee for the linguistic instruction of speakers in: the British Broadcasting Co. Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Dramatist G. B. Shaw, Actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Professor Daniel Jones of London University, one L. P. Smith of the Society for Pure English, and Lecturer Lloyd James were the gentlemen selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick...
...editor should be sufficiently informed and honest not to perpetrate such an arrant canard in a matter of history. The oft repeated contention that the Monitor defeated the Merrimac is refuted even by Federal historians themselves. Without vouching for the records (which I shall be glad to do for you or for Mr. Lawson), it seems sufficient to the purposes of this brief letter to quote Ericsson himself. He did not consider that the Monitor won the fight, and said in a letter written...
...Monitor's crew claimed bounty for the destruction of the Merrimac. A congressional committee investigated the facts and rejected the claim on the ground "that the Merrimac, so far from being seriously injured, was enabled after the engagement to protect the approaches to Norfolk and Richmond until after the evacuation of Norfolk". (H. R. Reports, 1725, 48th Congress, 1st Session...
...Lawson's contention is sound, one wonders why the Monitor did not capture the Merrimac, and why the Monitor herself fled to shoal water and to the protection of Fortress Monroe when the Merrimac twice came down the river and offered fight...