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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the softball encounters of the day, Kirkland downed Dunster 10 to 8, while Elephant Stove Madey pitched a one-hitter as Eliot blanked Winthrop 6 to 0. Madey was also the big gun of the winners' attack, poling a homer and a triple in three trips to the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboy Batsmen Beat Adams As Bunnies Win House Game | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

* But Captain Larry Davis, Ringling elephant superintendent, has stated that the 8-year-old Ringling elephant, Fanny, "could demolish Gargantua . . . and it would be no more than a breather for her."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Before the floods last month, Los Angeles' non-profit-making Zoopark, owned by the California Zoological Society, had managed to keep itself going. But it had never built a reserve fund from admission charges, sale of animals, concessions and, most important, renting animal actors to films. Among Zoopark'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Starvation Behind Bars | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Although there is no official competion scheduled until the inter-House championship races on May 18, some 13 House shells are on the river. The Dudley eight held four practice sessions during vacation. At this early date, it looks as if the Elephant and the Bunny will battle it out...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Bellboys Conquer as House Baseball Starts | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

*Mr. Hoover's one specific proposal was that Europe's War debts to the U. S. be used for exchanging international scholarships. *Republican elephant like the Democratic donkey first appeared in cartoons by famed Thomas Nast.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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