Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Powder River...
Reference is made to Struthers Burt's book Powder River in TIME...
...Nett explained when interviewed, that these fish, called Dodatmors, come from the Congo river region, although one was once found in Flushing Bay, thoroughly defunct. He said that man's brain ranged from one-fiftieth to one eightieth of his total weight, depending largely on whether weight, depending largely on whether he is of the thin, Group I variety or the plump dropped Freshmen type. The Dodatmors, on the other hand, have brains a long one-fortieth of their weight...
Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History found a sauropod trail near Glen Rose, Texas. Taking twelve feet at a stride, the creature had ambled down to the edge of an ancient river, crossed it, walked out on the other side. Thus it was clear that the sauropods could travel overland, for short distances at least. But the feet of Dr. Bird's great sauropod sank into the soggy ground two feet at every step...
...River (Twentieth Century-Fox). Bill Robinson, Preston Foster, Phyllis Brooks and Arthur Treacher in an amusing remake of a 1930 comedy satirizing 1) realistic prison drama, by showing a pen- itentiary which resembles a glorified country club; 2) college sporting drama, by showing the bizarre doings of the Rockwell Prison football team...