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Word: bearding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where are ye going?" said a voice with a strong Scotch accent. I stopped and looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scottish Sage | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: 55 Minutes from Broadway | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Solomon Plus. In Daytona Beach, Fla., Judge J. C. Beard decided that two claimants had equal rights to a bicycle, had it sawed in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1947 | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...cure his son, a hopeless epileptic since his head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Faith | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

During 50 years of farming at Hiawatha, Kans., John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning, noon & night. The effort gave him a mean look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: You Can Take It with You | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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