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Word: lungfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Game Hunter Willy Ley* has returned from safari. Having tracked his prey through the dank undergrowth of large public libraries, he has put his trophies on exhibition in a newly published book, The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn (Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Romantic Zoologist | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Into its tanks went sea creatures: sharks, channel bass, tropical lungfish, giant morays, sea turtles, penguins, alligators, crabs. There were monstrous fish, fierce and implacable; sullen, unfriendly fish; fish that clung like parasites to other fish, twisting their sinuous tails in the green water, staring at the shadowy faces beyond the glass. The city gave them 300,000 gallons of water a day-clean salt water from the sea, harbor water, fresh water from the upstate mountain streams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Aquarium Gone | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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