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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Puritan and Elephant second crews won their respective heats in the inter-House regatta to gain places in the finals Wednesday afternoon. Kirkland and Lowell, having won second places heats, will also be represented.

Author: By J. C. Robbins jr., | Title: Winthrop, Eliot, Kirkland, and Lowell Second Crews Qualify for Final Heats | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

Next day, while Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose went elephant riding in London Zoo back home, Their Majesties watched one of the remaining escort, the cruiser Southampton, in an anti-aircraft demonstration, peppering a black smoke shell cloud with hits that puffed white against it. Another day, and on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Buntings and Icebergs | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Retribution | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Step by step, like a long-harried elephant finally facing an enemy, Britain last week turned in her tracks. It was an impressive and world-shaking spectacle. Hard as it is for Britain to change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Watch on the Vistula | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Scattered throughout India are 562 native states, which range all the way from Hyderabad, with the area of England and Scotland together, a population of 14,436,148 and an annual revenue of about $30,000,000, down to an estate no bigger than an elephant stockade, with 32 souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pearls, Virgins, Elephants | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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