Word: newts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite all the Hoover troubles had been smoothed out. Dispute again arose as to who shall hold the Presidential hat at the Inauguration. Newt Butler of West Branch, Iowa, was to have been official hat-holder, because as a boy he "licked the stuffing out of Bert Hoover." But now 92-year old J. W. Reeder of Tipton, six miles from West Branch, claimed the honor, chiefly on grounds of seniority. Mr. Hoover will decide the hat-holding problem personally...
Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water snake...
Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water-snake, thoughtless creatures that swam in the shallow seas that covered the world in time's twilight until, stranded on limacious, shelving beaches left by those waters as the sun sucked them away, they died and turned to stone . . . enormous land beasts that shouldered through the early jungles of the world or straddled, whinnying, its ice-blistered rocks - the Dinosaurus, the Brontosaurus and the ringstreaked Lehthyornis, strange fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale...
...Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised to be. It reminded readers of the "find-the-face...
...Prof. Paul Kammerer, also of the University of Vienna, whose experiments in the transmission of acquired characteristics have recently aroused widespread interest here and in England, some biologists going so far as to rank him with Darwin (TIME, May 12). Kammerer grew eyes in the proteus, a sightless newt whose eyes are mere rudimentary spots beneath the skin, atrophied through ages of living in deep marine caves. He did it by exposing the newts to red light in their watery home continuously for five years from birth. After several generations, one group appeared with eyes that pushed through the head...