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Word: snaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MASTER OF HESTVIKEN: The Axe, The Snake Pit. ($3 each). By Sigrid Undset.?Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor key in the story, and would better be read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Visit Snake Farms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBOUR LEAVES FOR EXPEDITION IN SOUTH SEAS | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...back the "Utowana" will stop at Tela, Honduras, where the expedition will visit the snake farm maintained by Harvard, the Antivenim Institute of America, and the United Fruit Company. From there he will go to Cuba to the Harvard Biological Laboratory and Botanical Garden at Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBOUR LEAVES FOR EXPEDITION IN SOUTH SEAS | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...India where the king cobra, largest and most poisonous of snakes, takes a toll of thousands of lives a year, no progress has been made because the snake to held to be sacred. Since snakes die after a certain amount of venom has been extracted, the natives will not permit the development of any such protective measures, according to Dr. do Amaral. He added, "The natives of India would rather die than have a colbra die. The number of times their preference is fulfilled is amazing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brazilian Authority on Snake-Bite Antitoxin Discusses Serums--Hindus Prefer Death to Harming Sacred Cobra | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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