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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Any resemblance to the name of any person, living or dead, is to be regarded as purely coincidental. LOWELLA SALTONPUSS, of Ratcliff Part taken by Lowella Saltonstall FOUFOU SEARS, of Magnolia-by-the-Sea Aunt to Lowella. . . . . . . . . Part taken by foufou Sears, "Mrs. Oklahoma" 1897, Barnum & Bailey Ringling Brothers' Elephant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING SOON | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

"You've got to be a little crazy to be a great author; the trouble with me is that I'm not crazy enough," Richard Halliburton, author of "The Royal Road to Romance" who numbers swimming the Hellespont and crossing the Alps by elephant among his exploits, said in an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adventurer Halliburton Bewails His Sanity as Barrier to True Eminence | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

The story has come to the surface of an Eliot House social elephant who had six "obligations" at St. Tim's School. "Well," he figured, "they can't get away for any games anyway," so he invited all six to the Yale Game.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

The Birds of America was printed large 39½ in. by 26½ in.) at $1,000 a set, and hardly 200 sets were sold. Any well preserved complete set of that edition is now worth almost $15,000. When the "octavo" edition (10¼ in. by 7 in.) was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birds of America | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Audubon, hypercritical of his own work, would never have passed the present pictures, which have suffered from the reduction in size and difference in the method of reproduction. The "elephant" folio was exquisitely engraved on copper and aquatinted (principally by Robert Havell, who edited as he transcribed Audubon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birds of America | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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