Word: whale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day Mr. Day was asked 'for his resignation. He tendered it willingly, left to accept a post at Leland Stanford, his alma mater, no believer in the Ark or Jonah's Whale...
...skeptical," said he. "There are some people so ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is impossible for either of them to swallow a man whole, and anyway, no man could live inside a whale...
Annually the Macy's stages this grotesque parade to inveigle children and parents into its Christmas Toy Department. If a balloon is found the finder who sends it back gets a $50 prize. Last week's balloons, including a 168-ft. Krazy Kat-faced dragon, a 30-ft whale, went toward the Atlantic Ocean...
...Whale Watcher Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 9, on p. 60, you say there is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. By an odd coincidence, the third column on that same page carries the picture of the employer of a man who does state that he has seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been...
...There is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. Seamen say that when a whale wins his mate, he escorts her to the dark waters of great depths...