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Word: barnful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the bay's ice floes to haul her lobster pots. She rowed to the collecting smack to sell her catch, then headed home again. There she milked the cow, fed it and the horse, did the barn chores, and before cooking lunch got in a few licks at a fence she was fixing. In the May-to-October fishing season, that is daily routine for Annie Lyons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Annie's Day | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Worthington Valleys the horsy set will prance in. Up from Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties will come farmers whose interest in hot-blooded horses runs back a hundred years. All of them will think twice before betting against Citation. He belongs to Calumet Farm, the "baking powder" barn, which has found a magic recipe for raising breadwinners. Calumet owns more than its share of the best horses (Armed, Citation, Coaltown, Bewitch, Fervent) and has the best trainers, the Jones boys?shrewd old Ben ("B.A.") Jones and his son Jimmy. In Jockey Eddie Arcaro they have the best known, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Barn-Bred Shaver. The new machine is the invention of scholarly, stocky James H. Rand III, 35, son of the president of Remington Rand Inc. (typewriters, adding machines, etc.). Young Rand turned down an offer to work for his father, preferring to dabble in medical research. He studied at the University of Virginia, Vienna University and the University of Berlin (he never got a degree), before he set up a laboratory in a barn behind his Westport (Conn.) home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Revolution No. 2 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...summer, after two months of pounding, sawing, and scraping, the house began to assume an air of respectability. One of the big jobs was wrecking an old shed which nearly filled the space between the house and the one next door--formerly the barn of the Murphy house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rebuild 'Unlivable' House | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

Human Growth calls a Fallopian tube a Fallopian tube. Through this film and question-&-answer periods stimulated by it, Oregon hoped to take sex education out from behind the barn and into the class room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex in the Schoolroom | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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