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Word: whaled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...times this violent love-making would cease, as one of the whales would forge ahead, slowly but gracefully, turning over easily on its back as it went and keeping a position slightly beneath the surface of the water. The action resembling that of a swimmer as he turns on his back to float. The other whale well in the rear and swimming back up, would suddenly put on a burst of speed-full ahead, both engines-- as he ploughed a snowy, straight-as-an-arrow furrow through the Prussian-blue sea, which brought him swiftly forward to form that perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...Whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...Francisco Bay, a ferryboat ran into a large live whale which spouted, swam away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...Indian Ocean side of the continent Sir Douglas Mawson and the Norwegians were studying the seas for whale and other marine life, and trying to pre-empt some of the shores for their countries. Both made nominal claim to short sectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying the Antarctic | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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