Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After being the guest of honor at a royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve...
...work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve can be a murderer at heart. . . . I now have the pleasure of watching a 10-year-old lad at our Home, also once charged and convicted of murder, developing into a fine specimen of American boyhood...
...then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom nature played a sorry trick. "With small brain and powerful body and with the ferocity of both, this cat was more insistent on reaching and closing with its prey than probably any other animal." Then nature, which had evolved this perfect specimen, changed its environment, and the tiger, good for little but biting, soon disappeared.-Dr. John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington...
...graduated from Yale in 1900, spent the next ten years with Simmons Hardware Co. , of St. Louis. In 1915 he was made a partner of "Lee, Higg." Polite, polished, he fits well into Lee, Higginson's luxurious Manhattan office and is a perfect specimen of Banker, Idealized Type. He is a director of Ivar Kreuger's International Match Corp. for which his house is the U. S. banker. This year he was given the Royal Order of Commander of the North Star by the King of Sweden. His directorates also include Chase National Bank, International Telephone & Telegraph, Nash...
Australians have heard stories before of huge lizards in their continent's desolate interior. They have given the species, of which no specimen is known to have been killed, the name "prenty." Queensland has ocean-going crocodiles, second cousins of lizards, 33 ft. long, largest on earth. It has huge monitor lizards which can run, swim, climb facilely. The largest monitor lizards known are savage "dragons" on the East Indian islands Komodo, Rintja and Flores. They attain loft. lengths. There is good reason to assume that the scary "prenty" is an Australian monitor...