Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese doctrine of a moral protectorate over China. But in Tokyo Foreign Minister Hirota had to keep all three issues in the air at once with one hand conduct the routine business of the Foreign Office with the other and wave the Japanese flag with his teeth...
What interested alert Walter Howey most was the fact that Mr. Hearst, at 71, still has every one of his teeth and reads newspapers without glasses. And he either plays two hard sets of tennis or rides a spirited horse 15 or 20 miles every afternoon before going for a swim. That, said Walter Howey, should be put on the record. He persuaded the Chief to let an M-G-M cameraman take action pictures of him on the court. Back in Manhattan last week he offered the pictures to all the Press...
...that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...
Ramapithecus had a V-shaped upper jaw more similar to human form than to the U-shaped jaws of modern gorillas, orangs, chimpanzees. Sugrivapithecus had a well-developed chin like that of primitive man. Both had close-set, almost human teeth, lacking the formidable canine tusks of the great apes of today. The third genus was more like extinct apes previously discovered...
...burning sun under a cloudless blue sky, a doughty Kirkland House baseball team felt the well sharpened Bulldog teeth of the champion Yale College batsmen, as they went down to inglorious defeat before the clever pitching of the Jonathan Edwards team by a score of 11-0 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...