Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jet, a black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank...
Philadelphia. Last week a white Federal elephant became a municipal godsend when the U. S. Shipping Board agreed to sell Hog Island, $53,000,000 Wartime shipyard site, for $3,000.000 to the city of Philadelphia, for development as an air-water-rail terminal. Of Hog Island's 946 acres...
From another angle, Edwin C. Hill of the Sun concocted an imaginary conversation with "Dr. Dexter Fellowes" anent sea elephant Goliath II, successor to Goliath -who was reported dead twice last year (TIME, Oct. 7, Oct. 28), the last time officially.
Author Serna has never visited the U. S. Born in Madrid in 1891, he still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas...
Edward of Wales, suntanned, pipe-smoking, clad in rush-stained tropic gear, stood his ground, cranked his cinecamera while his comrades shot down a charging bull elephant 20 yards away.