Word: sand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand, squeezes into it from her abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both lose interest in their family, for the founding of which they have traveled miles up the river. Covering the eggs with sand both male and female...
Sarsaparilla, sand and salt...
Sarsaparilla, sand and salt...
...pressagent? That was the question that newspaper editors had to ask themselves as they read despatches last week describing the theft of the body of Floyd Collins. The corpse had been on exhibition in a bronze and glass coffin in Crystal Cave, Ky., some seven miles from Sand Cave, where Collins died in 1925 after a 17-day effort to dig him out alive. Crystal Cave is owned by a Dr. Harry Thomas of Horse Cave. Ky. The admission price to see Floyd Collins...
...Daytona Beach, Fla., in front of a crowd kept in safety by marshals, some newsreel photographers pointed their cameras last week at the snouted White Triplex car roaring toward them at 202 m. p. h. over the hard sand. The car swerved. Driver Lee Bible lost control. The car somersaulted prodigiously toward the cameras. When it lay still, Driver Bible, thrown far away, and one of the photographers, a big fellow named Charles Traub, crushed by three tons of pitchpoling steel, were dead. The film of the accident, complete in Traub's camera, went out at once to Pathe...