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Word: hippogriff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff-a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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