Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientists who were told of these beasts 25 years ago laughed lightly, assured tale-bearers that such things had not walked the earth since Eocene times. Natives who passed Komodo described something which sounded like a dragon. Everyone knew that dragons were as mythological as the Minotaur. But the tales kept coming and in 1912 Major P. W. Ouwens of Java's Buitzenborg Zoo dispatched collectors to Komodo. They brought back creatures which not only closely resembled an Eocene reptile but were also almost exact replicas of the St. George dragon. Zoologist Ouwens named the new species Varanns komodoensis...
From those misty beginnings down to Admiral Byrd's first Antarctic junket ("A splendidly equipped expedition") the long tale of man's investigation of his terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan...
Taking many of his cues from his predecessors in the field Mr. Edmonds does not blaze any remarkably new trail, and sometimes seems content merely, to retrace the stops of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. A story such as the "Death of Red, Peril," a tale of racing caterpillars, would indeed be famous, had Mark Twain never written his "Jumping Frog...
...really live tale of affairs behind the guns of the dining halls and their managers has recently come to our attention...
...comes the sad part of the tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the Carrot, feeling on a par with the meanest of his spud-skinning scullions slunk with his companion out of the abode of the Mighty with his tall between his legs. That is why Waistootts and He-Men have not recently been found in especial Presidential favor...