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Word: civet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Musk, Civet & Ambergris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Musk, Civet & Ambergris | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...species of Panamanian civet cat called by the Chiriqui Indians the "Hoo-Hoo-Nah" was named Bassaricyon pauli by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences after its discoverer, Amateur Explorer Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr., Harvard classmate & friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose Philadelphia banking family have been generous Academy patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Objects acquired by the National Gallery included portraits of General & Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman and a bronze entitled Panther Surprising Civet Cat. During the year 130,323 Freer gallery visitors went in by the front entrance. Twenty-three very special people went in by the South Entrance on Mondays, on which day the gallery is closed to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithsonian's Year | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Madagascar also produces the little fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a very aggressive, weasel-like kind of civet, remarkable as the relict of another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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