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Word: viper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, 25, with his regiment during maneuvers in the Piedmont Alps; heard a little girl had been bitten by a viper. He drove to the spot with a doctor, rushed the girl to Turin for further treatment. Villagers, learning his identity, made festival, wore Sunday clothes the rest of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Viper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rabbits | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Locarno, Switzerland, a traveling salesman got a divorce, married again. No.1 Wife, jealous, hearing that No. 2 was to have a baby, bought a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums, hid in it a lively venomous viper, mailed it to her hated rival. No. 2 opened the package, saw the snake (dead from cold in transit) drop out, gave premature birth to her baby. No. 1 Wife, cornered by police, confessed, will be tried for attempted murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rabbits | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Identifying poisonous snakes is easy. Most of them belong to the pit-viper family. They have a deep depression between eye and nostril. Heads are flat and triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Cleopatra's asp was probably a horned viper (Cerastes cornutus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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