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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Six lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Zoo | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

All told, it has taken six years to build the zoo, cost Illinois taxpayers some $3,000,000. The late Edith Rockefeller McCormick gave much of the land. When most of the buildings were finished last year, the Society's President John Tinney McCutcheon, famed Chicago Tribune cartoonist, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Zoo | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

* Marmosets, baboons, gibbons and probably most other monkeys have multiple births. So, rarely, do horses, cows, sheep, deer. Some species in which multiple births have never been recorded: whale, porpoise, zebra, buffalo. African antelope, giraffe, camel, llama, sea lion, walrus, hippopotamus, sloth, anteater, and the major varieties of elephant, rhinoceros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ape Twins | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

In Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bullet | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trader Horn's Goddess | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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