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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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An elephant that can bow, flap its ears when requested, dance, lie on its master without crushing him is usually a distinct asset to a vaudeville actor. But when work is difficult to obtain, an elephant, black or white, becomes an imposing handicap. Many a vaudeville actor or circus man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Unemployed | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Officials of The Bronx Zoo, New York City, last week made their annual measurement of Khartoum, world's biggest captive elephant. They used a special elephant-gauge designed for surveying fractious elephants at a distance. Khartoum, although he ate 91,250 lb. of hay last year, had gained only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Not Big Enough | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Battle Stories (132,000) and Screen Secrets (140,000) came in 1926. The latter began as Paris & Hollywood, consisting of pictures of females. Next month it is to become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whiz-Banger | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Press despatches from Cordova, Alaska, last week contained news which puzzled many a U. S. zoologist and paleontologist. Three weeks ago, it seemed, some one had found a wonderful prehistoric lizard in an ice cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: OLD LIZARD | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

The Boulder Canyon Project Act is expressly stipulated to be a "supplement to the Reclamation Law." Under the Reclamation Law the Secretary, pursuant to his authority "to do any and all acts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act," has designated by his own order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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