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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Nessie | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Opened this week at Manhattan's Walker Galleries was the first U. S. exhibition of John Skeaping's animal drawings. In almost all these the focus of Skeaping's interest is the interplay of muscle and shadow. On view were an infuriated elephant, with eyes bulging out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Muscle & Shadow | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Eliot outscored the Adams House nine 12-5 in a wild scoring fray in Tuesday's other game. Paul R. Wiley '37 kept the potent Elephant bats under control at times, but three batting splurges netted them a dozen runs. When the Gold Coasters took their turn at the stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

Religious ceremonial objects in the current exhibit include a six foot elephant tusk, carved in relief with richly dressed figures of kings and elephant heads; a huge, leaf-shaped sword, or ebere; many bells, cast in the shape of human heads; and a wooden rattle, five feet long, used by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Museum Gets Priceless African Bronze Portrait of a Princess of Benin | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

At a Manhattan banquet, New Jersey's Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman suggested that the G. O. Party emblem be changed from the elephant to the deer since the deer would "make a better run" and "a few bucks and a little doe would not hurt a damn bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Deer & Daddy | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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