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Word: barnful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talking United States | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...could point to any organized sabotage, though the unfounded rumor that the herd had the dreaded Bang's disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Fishkill Fizzle | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...shop's dirt floor, found an amazing collection of bones that seemed to explain a whole series of recent unsolved crimes. When they took the bones to Professor Krogman, he quickly identified them as those of a cow, five sheep, a turkey, a rat, a pigeon, a barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Professor and the Bones | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Zealand, which has the world's fourth highest radio density (one for every 4.6 people) ate the parliamentary broadcasts up. Farmers fought their wives over the question of where to put the radio: dairy, barn or kitchen. Prime Minister Savage's pear-shaped tone and forthright manner quickly made him their favorite broadcaster. Conservatives have yet to produce his peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Government by Radio | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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