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...extinct species were found for the first time on the Pacific slope. One, announced by Dr. Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology. The beak was missing...
...sold it to a U. S. collector, who still later gave it to Manhattan's American Museum. There last week Pope Gregory's unicorn horn was on exhibition. It was placed in the Hall of South Asiatic Mammals, because it was identified as having once adorned the snout of an Indian rhinoceros...
...farmers in and out of the drought area, the reasons were as plain as a pig's snout. For corn farmers will get double last summer's prices. For livestock, poultry and dairy products, which constitute the bulk of farm income, they can expect to realize nearly $700,000,000 more than last year...
...bronze, stood 18 in. high, 30 in. from rump to horns. There were two Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which...
...Shell." Like that Harlow epic, it is no esthete's reward, not yet a De Mille nogrom of the conventions; it is purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang...