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Word: uncetacean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...healthy adult finback should have a slow pulse-only twelve to the minute or less. But by the time the Woods Hole scientists had it wired, the Provincetown specimen was sick at heart, its pulse racing at an uncetacean 27-still only one-third the rate of the excited Dr. Kanwisher (see cut). An hour before Dr. White got to its beachside, the whale died and was rigged for towing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beat | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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