Search Details

Word: snouted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Last week his men-Germans, Indians and Thibetans-were high up the Zemu Glacier. They had rounded its crumbling snout the previous fortnight. The party had been cheery. Now they were plodding on, apathetic from the sight of double-dealing Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kanchenjunga Couloir | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Clark Hunsaker, U. S. N., retired, and his well-thatched vice president Fred M. Harpham. Front & centre Mrs. Hoover's place would be marked by the end of a red-white-&-blue ribbon leading upward to a small closed hatch in the underside of the dirigible's snout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Up Ship! | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Ford freight plane, powered by a single 600-h. p. water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engine. Except for the long snout-like motor and four-bladed propeller, the ship bears many outward resemblances to the tri-motored Ford transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Show | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Mines, asking him to investigate. Two days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed the discovery. He found the animal to be only 24 ft. long, resembling a huge lizard with a long tail and tapering head. He said it had a snout like a pelican's beak, a head like an elephant. He found no fur. Six feet of flesh were preserved. Foxes and Eskimo dogs had eaten the rest. Since scientists were still puzzled, part of the huge carcass was taken to Cordova. So soon as weather conditions permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: OLD LIZARD | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...race madly about, start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an unusually fine animal. When keeper spies truffle, he slaps the pig on the snout with a rod, seizes the truffle, rewards the pig with a few acorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Diggers | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Previous | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next