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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As always when Dancer Uday Shankar of India returns to New York, a capacity house turned out last week to watch and hear the dances he has constructed during his absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brown Dancers | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

The audience, impressed with Shankar's sinuous Shiva, and with the elaborate suppleness of Shankar's French girl, Simkie (only Occidental in the cast), marveled also at the Elephant-Demon as danced by a 21-year-old stripling named Madhavan. Young Madhavan has studied dancing in India since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brown Dancers | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Commissioned to write a 100,000-word book on India, Yeats-Brown gave himself six months to do it in, 20,000 miles by airplane, elephant, train, car, horse to gather his impressions. At the outset he confessed himself stumped by India's size (350,000,000 pop.), unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage to India | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

The figure "Old Deal" which I originated during the campaign was arrived at independently of the figure by Low referred to by Mr. J. P. Deringer in TIME of Nov. 23. TIME itself may assume some responsibility for my use of the figure for it really grew out of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Ward's sends out no expeditions. It has lists of 11,000 collectors to whom it writes for needed items. Free-lancers send in material on speculation. Earthworms one foot long-for classroom dissection-come from Michigan, huge bullfrogs from Louisiana. France ships bushels of its edible snails, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ward's | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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