Word: walruses
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Stoll-MacCracken Siberian-Arctic Expedition, supported by Charles H. Stoll, Manhattan lawyer, collected some fine specimens of brown bear and the material for the Pacific Walrus Group to be placed in the Hall of Ocean Life...
Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
...case of "out of the frying pan, into the fire," for the tusks of the walrus had pierced the boat. Just as the water came over the edge, the boat reached the schooner, saving the men from a dangerous fall among the walrus...
Which does sound as if it came from the same man wrote "The Walrus and the Carpenter...
...Rasmussen, explorer; and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming last fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran...