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Word: whale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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January 31: The Yale Whale springs a leak the week before the game, but it is patched in time for a 3-1 Eli upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polishing the Rust: Icemen Capture National Title | 6/8/1889 | See Source »

...would that the whale were green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 12/18/1886 | See Source »

...would that the whale were green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 12/18/1886 | See Source »

...heavy as a man's. Weight has nothing to do with brain power, for many an idiot has been proven to have as large a brain as that of some of the great intellects of history. Only two animals have brains absolutely larger than man, - the elephant and whale. If weight has nothing to do with brain power, we must look elsewhere for its source; we find it in what is called the "gray matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farnham's Lecture. | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

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