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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down its neck and whisper that perhaps it, too, is not long for this world. D.P.S...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

Germans complained bitterly of the trainloads of building material being diverted to this enterprise in a country whose housing situation is critical. Some took pleasure in forecasting what they would do to the statue as soon as the Russian occupation was over. "We will blow it up. We will do a better job with that than the British did with our Tiergarten-Bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ehrenhain | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...improved Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Whole Huroosh | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an injury was a mortal blow to the team, There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...foot-three 200-pound plunging fullback Captain Vince Moraveo who averaged six yards a line buck in one contest last fall when a three-yard plunge for a touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an Injury was a mortal blow to the team. There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

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