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Word: 14th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which in the 2nd Century visited Fergus MacLeite, King of Ulster, are believed to be the ancestors of Swift's Lilliputians, and possibly the model for the pixyish 14th-Century Robin Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: It's Them | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...plague-resistant: they still succumb readily enough when in such plague centers as India. Nor did they become notably more hygienic: the flea still flourishes in much of Europe. Perhaps the plague bacteria lost some of their virulence. But they may regain their virulence as they did in the 14th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Black Death Is Here | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Enough. In Birmingham, Ala., cruising police cars got a radio call: "Car X-Y-3, car X-Y-3, go to Third Ave. and 14th St.-a nude woman running down the street. . . . All other cars remain on your beat. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1942 | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

After seeing the winning run on third three times, the visitors caught on in the 14th inning with a two-tally uprising to salt away the decision and incidentally, undisputed possession of second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: NINE DOWNS YALE IN 14 FRAMES, 5-3 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...small snippets of already-colored glass together in a huge mosaic, outlining the design with the intervening lines of lead. This method is the one responsible for such masterpieces of glazing as the windows of the Cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges. The second, or Renaissance method, dates from the 14th and 15th Centuries, when, instead of outlining their designs with lead, artists began to paint them boldly with pigment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cleveland's New Windows | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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