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Barry started to walk over, and Barry--this huge Neanderthalish supreme physical speciman of a man--can you guess what Barry did, on the walk over, minus that pint of blood? No, that's not what happened. What did happen was that he leaned too hard on the arm of the little old lady, who promptly collapsed under his weight. They had to pick her up and bring some real nurse over to take care of her and that's the truth.8Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...employee pointed out a strange speciman: "That's a Chinese Umbrella tree--only one in these parts for many years," he explained. 'That Austrian Pine is pretty rare for this section of the country too." These are among the trees still standing which will be saved to landscape the new development...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Circling the Square Flora's End | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology D. Student Bursts Into Rare Crustacean Case | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

...wedge-tailed Shearwater just about to commence breeding and smaller numbers of a small white-bellied one, which we learned later are described as local races. . . The land birds are very few, one--a little scrub wren described by Alexander in 1922; another the little quail also a topotypical speciman. There is an abundance of small Wallaby here, an island race of Macropus eugenii. . . Our two weeks passed very quickly and pleasantly, though water was very scarce and we were limited to about two cups a day, which is a bit thin when one is ranging about in hot weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reptilian Denizens of Wallaby Islands Succumb to Wiles of Thirsty Entomologists Living at Cannery | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

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