Word: saurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything at the U. S. S. R.'s first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from...
...restaurant parlance is a handy name for almost any "wader," vaguely similar to a snipe or sandpiper. The species most common in England (and the U. S.) is the ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze off because, should an enemy approach, the cries of the plovers will wake him up. Egyptian folklore teems with improving tales about the close, platonic friendships of crocodiles and plovers...