Word: mungo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...
...Kidd, Mungo Park and Willie Park Sr. managed to overcome the Morrises the next three years. And then, on Christmas Day, 1875, Tom Morris Jr. died, aged but 24. Tom Morris Sr. lived on, but never again was a Morris champion. St. Andrews "canonized" the pair of them and erected a statue of Tom Morris Jr. making an iron shot. The statue's legend reads: "Sure...
Sirs: As you state (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 24) few doctors abandon medicine to become famed in other fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...