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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the risk of incurring the editorial ire or the CRIMSON for not living in Lowell House and for having missed both of the recent Monday Evening Affairs, I want to append a note to the "Press" of this morning's issue. Possibly it is not polite to ask how...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/10/1930 | See Source »

Managers. Silver-haired Connie Mack, proud, taciturn, scientific, drills his squad at blackboard baseball until they are dizzy. Said he recently: "I hesitated to call these boys one of my greatest teams because they have only won a single world's series. But after the way they've played this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

When the curator of a zoo needs an unusually large cobra for his snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: White Seals | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama-whose mortal hate and fear of the Pope at Rome caused him to desert the Democratic party in 1928- is a widower. Nevertheless an action for divorce was formally filed against him in Chancery Court at Birmingham. Ala., last week. The charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Heflin Divorce | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Shrewd traffickers in this early potent medicine waxed fat. Going further than mere powder-selling they purveyed unicorn horn cups, elaborately carved, which would guarantee living to a ripe old age. Horn walking sticks or wands were still more powerful. The latter, which in today's money were worth well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unicorns | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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