pigmy

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They won, for example, when Congo, a pigmy elephant, tried to walk into Dr. Ditmars' office, got stuck in the doorway.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the fall the team will practice on the 90 pigmy gridirons, giving them all the same rough treatment.

From Time Magazine Archive

As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese.

From Time Magazine Archive

The everlasting shall always have precedence over the momentary; the time-serving heroics of to-day are the laughter-compelling travesties of to-morrow; the golden colossus of one age is the brazen pigmy of the next.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den