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Word: betta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reginald Henry Phelps '30 of Southwick has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Betta Kappa, it was announced last night. Custom makes the secretary-treasurer marshal of the society in his Senior year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. K. ELECTS R. H. PHELPS '30 AS SECRETARY-TREASURER | 4/5/1929 | See Source »

Twelve tanks contained small Betta splendens, a velvety black- and-bluish fish from Siam, with a round tail and carmine iridescences. A mirror held in front of three-inch Betta splendens soon excites him to the violent pugnacity for which he is world-famed. Sometimes, in a fit of rage, he destroys his own mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Show | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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