Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countries, a news story in civilized countries. Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex- pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white whale, Moby Dick, on the screen, set off at once for the island in his yacht, Infante, accompanied by his wife, baby and scientists...
...mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little...
...Department of Agriculture bought itself a bargain last week. It acquired a collection of 1,000,000 butterflies and moths-valued at $1 per specimen -belonging to the late Dr. William Barnes of Decatur, Ill. for $50,000, or a nickel per insect. Usefulness of the collection, to be housed in the National Museum, Washington: with the new specimens on hand the Government can more readily identify insect pests...
Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of Persian art the exhibits arranged to illustrate sources, influences, development, mutations since 3,000 B. C. Prizes will be offered for designs based on exhibit specimens most applicable to modern industrial art. The specimen exhibit will be augmented by 10,000 photographs of Persian architecture, art, and archeology not removable to London. Chief aim is to demonstrate on a great scale what has been known to only a small circle of specialists...
...work, stand, half-comatose, at the bar of an old-fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they are too easy, too plausible and too teachable...