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Word: barkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this awesome array of talent, one might think George Munger hasn't a worry in the world. But he does; constant experimentation still hasn't produced a quarterback to fill Gene Davis' shoes. In the Penn system, a quarterback must block like a fiend, call signals, and bark signals (Penn uses no huddle) in the best Demosthenesian manner. Jackie McCarthy, a Sophomore converted from end, has top rating right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Stresses Pass Offensive In Drill for Star-Laden Quakers | 10/1/1942 | See Source »

...body in the steel casket had come 12,000 miles. On that unnamed island where he was killed, Private Weiner had been a favorite of the native chief. When he died, the natives held a tribal ceremony. They wove a tapestry of bark and sent it along for his parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Back from the War | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to the doghouse for a spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mr. Arnold Muzzled | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...human diseases, saps the strength of some 800,000,000 people throughout the world. Although there is no safe drug that directly kills malaria parasites (carried by the Anopheles mosquito), the chills & fever and other symptoms can be controlled by dosing with quinine, made from the bitter bark of the cinchona tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Retch and Stay Sober | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On the Bug Front | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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