Word: fin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years. Reptiles will keep for an indefinite number of years in this way, though they lose their lustre and brilliancy. It is wonderful to see the minute differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet...
...onto his opponent's nob with his one-two. In the second attempt Sampson's right was more successful then Spencer's had been, for he caught him a clipper on the ivory-box, Paul retaliating on the top of Phil's brain-pan with his Dexter fin. [Clipper...
...following named gentlemen will constitute the Record board for the ensuing year: Charles Halsey, '83; Francis Johnson Phelps, '83; Sherman Day Thatcher, '83; George Conkling Jennings, '83, (Fin.); Henry Curtis Nutt, Jr., '83 S.; Clinton Ross, '84; Charles Ansel Watrous, '84; Davenport Galbraith, '84 S.; Paul Irving Welles, '85. The new board will assume control of the paper after the next issue...
...following-named gentlemen will constitute the Courant board for the ensuing year : George Hill Bottome, '83; David Hillhouse Buel, '83; Charles Seward Foote, '83; Francis Bartlett Kellogg, '83, Fin.; John Edwards Stryker, '83, S. S. S.; Nelson Pendleton Bigelow, '84; Frederick Kingsbury Curtis, '84; Albert Lucas, '84, S. S. S.; Herbert Lionel Doggett...