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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...
Depression has little to do with recruiting, as "drifters" are not even considered by the Recruiting Officers. The requirements for enlistment in the Navy at the present time are higher than the entrance requirements in many colleges. A man must be a perfect physical specimen, produce four references from prominent men in his community, have a clear police record and pass a general classification test with a minimum mark...
...articles on dietetics, child guidance, prevention of tooth infection, by qualified authorities. Instead of hints for the enlargement of the female bosom there is an article by Muriel Draper entitled "Mary Garden in Her Body" ("Is Mary Garden, After a Half Century of Time, Still the Most Perfect Specimen of All- Around Womanhood in the World Today...
...died 1926. In 1928 he, 90, married a 26-year-old Butte, Mont, girl who had been his nurse. In 1929 he died.*Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania with rod & reel landed a 157-lb. specimen off Block Island last month...
...itself up to a perfect orgy of gloom, and one friendly financier warned his newspaper friends that they had better draw what cash they were likely to need for some time, as the Bank of England was going to close its doors on Monday! This was merely a prize specimen of the crop of rumors...