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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The stage is an African jungle. Spears flash through the murk, an elephant trumpets. Tom-tom-tom goes the tom-tom. The Voodoo Man warns his people, "All the gods are angry, all the clouds hang low." There must be human sacrifice. The Girl is chosen. As she walks into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cleveland Opera | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Other engrossing fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive are tiger v. water buffalo, tiger v. black leopard, tiger v. crocodile, crocodile v. python, python v. honey bear. The honey bear comes out better than the rest of Author Buck's creatures because he runs away first. Small and incredibly clumsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the Industry | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Each year Reporter Miller accompanies an expedition to the Mexican island Guadalupe to collect elephant seals for the zoo. This capture, though it sounds adventurous, does not excite him much. More exciting are the thousands of wild goats which infest the island, and two men who live there the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waterfront Pages | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

R. L. Slites '34 was elected president of the Eliot House Boat Club in the balloting held Saturday. Other officers chosen were Richard Stackpole '34, vice-president; T. W. Nazro '34, secretary; and Robert Breckinridge '34, treasurer. Stites was recently named associate varsity crew manager, while Breckinridge and Nazro, both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News fom the Houses | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

The Elephants piled up a total of 11 points out of a possible 12. Winthrop followed with six victories, while Adams trailed the field with only one point. Preceding the playoff, each house had played the other houses one time, with Winthrop defeating Eliot, Eliot defeating Adams, and Adams defeating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 6/1/1932 | See Source »

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