Word: dinosaurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sterren Mountains, snow-capped backbone of Netherlands New Guinea, is a triangular-shaped, 40-acre swamp with no visible outlet. On hands and knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly...
...adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook's 'jungle Ways...
...northeast corner of Utah, on a bare ridge of the desolate Uinta Mountains, diggers discovered the fossil remains of several dinosaurs ("terrible lizards"). The U. S. Government set apart 80 acres at the site, named it Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens...
...With a dinosaur footprint among their booty, 22 tired geologists returned to Cambridge late Saturday night from an all-day field trip to the Connecticut Valley...
...Trall of the Dinosaur...