Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While archaeologists and paleontologists are uncovering extinct monsters and ancient races, a corresponding outbreak of interest in the natural history of existing animals is in progress. Numerous expeditions are daily finding rare or previously unknown species. Many of these expeditions are supported by the American Museum of Natural History...
...Indian rhinosceros and bison. A collection of more than 1,100 specimens of Australian mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians has arrived in charge of Harry Craven, and will be mounted in a special Australian hall. It contains skins and skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others...
John Zimmer, of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought home from the Amazon Valley a rare nocturnal bird called by the natives " alma perdida," or lost soul, owing to its unearthly shriek. It is mottled gray and resembles the whippoorwill...
...rare documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States...
...undergraduates on health, and also have had the rather unexpected result of giving new confidence to many men who were afraid there was something serious the matter with them when there was not. These examinations are also significant as showing that the men who enter college nowadays, with rare exceptions, come to college with clean and wholesome bodies. There are compulsory physical examinations also for candidates for teams, and other students may have such examinations if they wish. The professor of hygiene has the power to prevent any man from playing on a team if his physical condition makes...