Word: roc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights. About 25 football-sized Aepyornis titan eggs exist in various museums. Not content with possessing one of the finest specimens known, Collector Ray last week declared his belief that his egg belongs to another and larger species than that represented by other eggs...
...valeur et d'heroïsme ce nom de Quebéc évoque en nous, et que de noms illustres s'associent à ce noble roc. . . ." Loud and ecstatic were the French Canadian cheers* as he finished, dropping into English once more to invite Premier King and Lord Tweedsmuir to the White House. Then the official party adjourned for luncheon to the Governor-General's summer home in the Citadel. Afterwards there were private conferences on public problems common to the two countries, a sightseeing tour through showers, a formal tea and a departure by train...
Ever since Saki's Colonel, in "The Unberable Bassington," first announced that the Bandicoot had been lost, together with the roc and the borogove, and even hinted that there might not be much point in looking for it, the perverse have been looking. What became of the Bandicoot? No one ever knew. Well, hardly anyone, but a student of biology, casting about through the caverns of Peabody Museum this week, came upon a curious bit of taxidermy. The label, like all Peabody labels, was in flower long before Saki's colonel, and it reads "Broad-Billed Bandicoot." Spurred...