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Word: arrowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make its own glass. General Motors was stocked with a month's supply. But by last week's end the parts pinch had laid off 10,000 to 20,000 workers in Ford's River Rouge factory, crippled production in Ford's and Fierce-Arrow's Buffalo plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound behind him and his assailant is stepping on his toe, the monster nonchalantly faces what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...scientists collected material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithsonian's Year | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Investigation shows that this city has an interesting variety of "Thou Shalt Not's." You can't shoot a bow and arrow without a permit; and for every use of indecent language there's a fine. There will also be no bell-ringing except during prescribed hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Positively No Oxen, Sheep, Pigs, Cows, or Goats Allowed to Graze on Streets | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...railroaders went through the Pennsyl vania's divisional shops. Meanwhile the engine was changed from a double-header K-2 to a double-header K-4, fastest of steam engines. This power whipped the train back to Chicago over the mainline route of the Detroit Arrow in record time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: One-Day Railroaders | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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