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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1936
Page
8
A Nature section summary notes ancient flying lizards or pterodactyls, found in mud with stone imprints in London’s British Museum. It describes wings smooth and hairless, large eye sockets, five finger bones forming each wing edge, long fifth finger, light bones, and weight not exceeding about 25 pounds.
Uncle Ray's Corner notes some lizards in Borneo and the Philippines can glide up to 90 feet using skin wings from leg to leg. It recalls extinct pterodactyls, some with wingspans of 10 feet or more and giants up to 20 to 22 feet, seen in fossil finds.
Harvard enthusiasts hope a special stamp will honor the university’s 300th founding with Roosevelt’s approval, while officials fear a bad precedent. New Zealand issues a five stamp set for the World Industrial Conference. Denmark marks Reformation. Ecuador introduces a compulsory defense tax stamp for legal papers and mail.
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