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Word: sends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other mammal can, but five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a wormish monster which lives in the freshwater marshes of northern South America, grows over 8 ft. long and thick as a man's thigh, can send a shock through 28 ft. of water and stun the largest animal, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Electric Eel | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Aquarium's No. 1 attraction, with three performances daily. Branching his eel out into the field of ceremonial keypushers, he had it supply the initial impulse to start a police siren, a North River fireboat, an airplane; light a 2,000,000-candlepower beacon in Radio City; send a buzz over an NBC network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Electric Eel | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...game being informal, the coach has no set lineup and will send all the men who report into the game. Leading candidates for the starting berths include halfbacks Jim Rousmaniere, Robin Scully, and Bob White, and forwards John Sinnott, Tom and Herby Motley, Harry Alexandre, and Newlin Hastings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, Harvard Booters in Informal, Out-Season Game | 4/24/1937 | See Source »

...probably won't get another chance like this to place your grievances, remedies, constructive and destructive thoughts in print. Only if a man is unable to think, is there no point in his coming out. The CRIMSON Editorial Board will send him into the crannies of stimulating University problems; it will teach him to write, but not to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Editorial, Sophomore and Freshman Business Competitions Open at Crimson Tonight | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

...Gretonas goes out on the wire and, holding precariously onto his balancing pole, lies down on his back and rolls over. The Wallendas and Grotofents now not only match this but, as if it were not enough to turn a spectator's head snowy white, send one of their number out on the wire to do a drunken rhumba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Bigger & Better | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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