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Word: coconuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks at a tree, there is a leopard in it. When a friendly potentate gives him a pig for Thanksgiving dinner, a python crawls halfway into the pig's pen, eats the pig, finds itself trapped. To catch langur monkeys, he makes a one-inch hole in a coconut shell, puts rice inside. The monkey can reach into the shell but can not withdraw its closed paw with the rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Subcommittee 36 of the Economic Committee last week unanimously resolved to promote a study of diseases of the coconut palm. Equally unimportant to most delegates seemed the sailing from England last week of No. 1 Brain Trusty Raymond Moley, whose visit was a fizzle from the Conference viewpoint since it turned out that he, hailed on his arrival in London as "Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty." did not in fact come empowered to speak with authority for President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CONFERENCE: Same With Me! | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...Coconut Palm leaves grow 12 ft. to 18 ft. long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Bang! A bullet nicked the forehead of Russell Caldwell, Coconut Grove youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Escape | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Thus the world stage was tentatively set last week for a dummy Lausanne Conference to be followed by a London Conference at which superhuman efforts would be made to sway U. S. public opinion and eventually crack Congress' anti-cancellation coconut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World Conferences | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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