Word: snaked
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While the thought of eliminating the squalor of living conditions among Indians is praiseworthy, it cannot be accomplished without also upsetting old religious rites, such as the sun dance, and the snake dance of the Zunis. Modern plumbing an hygienic living conditions, the goal of the Red Cross, cannot help breeding a sense of unreality when the snake dance is performed. The Indian civilization, such as it was must be supplanted entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself...
William Beebe, with his marine expedition aboard the steamship A returns (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 16), having perused the Sargasso Sea amid high waves, and drawn up from great depth small fishes-red, black, silver, transparent, luminous, stalk-eyed, snake-jawed; but being continuously disturbed by high waves which scattered the Sargassum weed, secured in one haul in his last day there five Amphioxii (believed to have been the intermediate stage between invertibrate and vertibrate life). They have a cartilaginous backbone. The value of the catch is that hitherto Amphioxii have seldom been known far from shore...
Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water snake...
Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water-snake, thoughtless creatures that swam in the shallow seas that covered the world in time's twilight until, stranded on limacious, shelving beaches left by those waters as the sun sucked them away, they died and turned to stone . . . enormous land beasts that shouldered through the early jungles of the world or straddled, whinnying, its ice-blistered rocks - the Dinosaurus, the Brontosaurus and the ringstreaked Lehthyornis, strange fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale...
...They have learned there is one mysterious bird in a far country of three letters and one snake of three letters. They have learned the Latin word for 'sun' and learned the French...