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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They almost lost when Gunda the elephant tried to kill his keeper. Another keeper drove Gunda away by driving a pitchfork into the tender hind quarters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: One Month for Ducking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

They won, for example, when Congo, a pigmy elephant, tried to walk into Dr. Ditmars' office, got stuck in the doorway. Congo snorted and started to shake the walls down. Dr. Ditmars at once broke into a noisy, fake argument with a keeper. The argument attracted Congo's attention. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: One Month for Ducking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

On one side stood Philip Albright Small Franklin and his International Mercantile Marine combination. On the other side stood Paul Wadsworth Chapman, present head of U. S. Lines, now evidently aided by Pacific coast shippers headed by Robert Stanley Dollar. Optimistic Philip Franklin offered $3,000,000 in liquidation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sale or Salvage? | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

What looked like a long-drawn, cautious auction was going on in the offices of the U. S. Shipping Board at No. 45 Broadway all last week. If it was an auction, it was one of the major deals of U. S. shipping history, for on the block was no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Atlantic Auction | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Son of India (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ramon Novarro, dressed in a turban and sitting on top of an elephant, does not look in the least like Mahatma Gandhi nor any other East Indian. He does, however, look enough like the late Rudolph Valentino to inspire audience reactions of the Valentino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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