Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left no possible dwelling place for the splendid unicorn, he was reluctantly relegated to the limbo of legend. But there were stories that cattle and other animals had been made to grow a single big horn by cutting their scalps and manipulating their horn buds. In 1827 famed Naturalist Georges Cuvier said that this was impossible, since the horn buds were integral parts of the animal's skull, and the frontal part of the skull was divided by a suture where it would be impossible for transplanted horns to grow...
...cannot be reconciled with the world's madness, is too extreme and implausible to be trusted. Such criticisms the author answers in an epilog, employing the old device of a dialog between the author and one of the characters who objects to his role in the book. A naturalist in philosophy, George Santayana is no naturalistic novelist, concerns himself little with realistic details. Instead, he has attempted to express the "poetic truth," rather than the literal truth about his people...
...occasion was the dedication of a $3,500,000 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, a new granite wing to the American Museum of Natural History opposite Manhattan's Central Park. Erected to commemorate Roosevelt the explorer and Roosevelt the naturalist, the man who rode the plains of the West, penetrated the River of Doubt, hunted through the African jungle, the new and still empty museum heard more at its dedication of Roosevelt the statesman. Franklin Roosevelt filled his address with T. R. quotations, most of which needed little stretching to apply to the New Deal. In his first message to Congress...
Right out of the late great William Henry Hudson's The Naturalist in La Plata might have come this bit from Mrs. J. W. Peiterson of El Cajon Valley (Calif.) News: "An old family horse belonging to the Marcks Brothers of Lakeside, and raised by them from a colt on their ranch above El Capitan, died last week. Last year he was turned out to green pastures, his twenty-five years of intimate and dependable service ended. Weeks on end, the old fellow roamed where he pleased and was seldom seen...
...likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design a national seal, they chose the double eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. After lesser men had substituted the bald eagle, Naturalist Franklin wrote...