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Word: rhinos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie's most spectacular moments are provided by a running noose-and-lariat battle between an enraged rhinoceros and members of the expedition mounted in a truck. At one point the rhino gets the upper hand; charging the truck, he topples it over on its side as if it were a baby Austin. Another highlight: a series of submarine close-ups of gigantic hippos lolling on the sandy bottom of a transparent pool. Weirdest animal is the aardvark, which has a squawk like a maddened calliope and the look of a dispirited rabbit sired by an anteater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...looks good? Valpey isn't mentioning names. "We can make anybody look great for three plays," he says when asked if he doesn't think such-and-such a back is running like a combination rhino-gazelle. "It wouldn't be fair to the boys to name names at this stage of the game. There's no lineup. We're sorting 'em and changing 'em around...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: 'Boom-Boom, Till They Get It,' Valpey Discloses | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...land of the frolicsome rhino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...ancient times a hollow rhino horn was supposed to be a poisonproof cup, would supposedly crack, if poison were poured into it. Nonbeliever Charles II disproved this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Bring 'Em Back Alive | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...land of the African Rhino There lives a pure white albino. His parents are blacker than Navy tobaccer; How he can be white I'm damnfino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aphorists | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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