Word: penguine
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...antarctic explorer one day found himself in a lush, green valley near the South Pole (volcanic heat kept it warm). The valley was inhabited by civilized, seven-foot-tall penguins who lived in a "Penguinry" of neat stone houses. The grave "chairbird" of the penguin parliament waved his flipper at the explorer. A choir of tuneful penguins rippled off "fluting sounds" of welcome that reminded the explorer of the clarinet works of Johannes Brahms. One smart penguin soon learned to speak a sort of penguin-English. "Being a bird," he clacked, "of course I think we are the form...
Behind them, Seabees and Army engineers repaired the roads. Before them lay Apra harbor, its turquoise waters whipped into white streaks by PT-boats on guard against enemy movement. U.S. ships returned to the harbor-the first since the minesweeper Penguin was sunk Dec. 8, 1941. Supplies began to flow in for the attack inland. Patrols probed seven miles across the island. Main bodies followed, cut Guam in half...
...which Bodmer sees virtues. But he does not share Winston Churchill's complete enthusiasm for Basic. He favors a synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted one which might be called Hogbod: Hogben calls it Interglossa and recently published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates, says Bodmer, might learn to write and speak it in far less time than is required to master English, French or German...
...Netherlands East Indies, where native hens do not lay well and where imported chickens soon die from native poultry diseases, the chief egg supply is from penguin ducks (so called because they walk erect). Their eggs are also often infected with Salmonella...
...cummings' The Enormous Room, Don Quixote, The Education of Henry Adams, St. Augustine's Confessions, Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis Carroll's Collected Stories, The Origin of Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. Not included: the Bible ("We assume you have ... or ... can easily acquire...