Word: squirrelish
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...Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life. Primitive lemurs swung through palm trees, while the first horse, Eohippus, a short-legged creature about the size of a fox terrier, nibbled on grass beside the squirrelish Paramys...
...Germans, it now appears, are not likely to conquer the physical U.S. But they conquered the minds of U.S. educators long ago. The German doctrines of scientific pedagogy and of the squirrelish accumulation of facts (Ph.D.) are still the U.S. fashion. Anyone curious to know what is wrong with U.S. education would do well to examine briefly a new book titled A Basic Vocabulary of Elementary School Children (Macmillan...
...Comte de Paris, despite a somewhat squirrelish appearance, is personally a likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...
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