Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Elephant's Ear (Caladium), commonly planted in the summer to decorate lawns, has leaves 2 1/2 ft. to 4 ft. long, may be 2 ft. wide.
Eliot House, partly because of its size, is the most intellectually and socially diversified unit in the House plan, containing every sort of intellectual, Lampoon editors, football and other athletes, social climbers, political instigators, loud talkers, do-nothings, and all the other common disadvantages or attractions of every House. Yet...
When one considers these minute cameos with reference to Mr. Duff Cooper's production, he is led to suspect that the inspiration which fostered the writing of this book was very similar to that which would lead an elephant into a drawing room. The shoddy jacket blatantly insistent upon the...
* Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), unlearned Dutch merchant's clerk, was first man to recognize bacteria and protozoa with a microscope. But not until Louis Pasteur did anyone explain the meaning of Leeuwenhoek's "little animals." Last year Clifford Dobell, English protistologist (student of unicellular organisms), nephew of...
Visitors to the Animal War Dispensary of the Royal S. P. C. A., opened last month in London by Frances Countess of Warwick, may now observe an heroic plaque on its façade. A central angelic figure, bearing laurel wreaths, stands waiting with wings and arms outspread. Toward it...