Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate its food. The fangs are only used when the beast is angry, and are thrown forward...
Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening by an audience of the best people of Cambridge and many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education...