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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The war finally came to Addis Ababa last week. Early one morning a telephone clerk near Dessye called excitedly to say that a huge flight of Italian planes had passed overhead, evidently headed for the Ethiopian capital. Twenty minutes later a sharp-eyed outlook fired a warning gun from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR: Hit & Run | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Following members of the Elephant squad will make the trip: William H. Cann '37. William T. dean, Jr. '37, George Dodge, 2nd '37, Kenneth B. Hodson '37, George D. Leonard '37, John J. G. McCue '36, Robert M. Meyers '38, George W. Oettle '36, Thomas Paull '36, William F. Read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/25/1936 | See Source »

JOSEPH LAUTNER JR. 11 years old Berlin Not- to Bremen but to Hamburg's famed Hagenbeck Menagerie the Berlin Zoo telephoned its order, obtained a 17-ft. bull elephant seal (Mirunga patagonica) to be Roland II.-ED. Coed & Principles Sirs:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Despite all these headaches, the League Palace, glimpsed from a passing airplane, already makes a fine display with its great cement masses of elephant white.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Elephant White | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

An ostrich egg may be considered a single living cell. Big, too, is a single nerve cell which runs along an elephant's spine. The structure of these monster cells is practically the same as a microscopic cell in a rabbit's liver, of which some 980 are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mitochondria | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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