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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tower, one of the Admiral Graf Spee's wireless hands ticked out the warning. A couple of 5.95 were cleared-to fire across the Frenchman's bow, or just in case the boys on the Formose were fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Great Victor Herbert (Paramount) opens with a stern view of the bulgy, bobbing little maestro tripping down the centre aisle of a theatre to conduct a synthetic Victor Herbert operetta. When he turns to make his bow, the audience sees that he is just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed up to look like the composer. But few people who go to see The Great Victor Herbert will give a tenor's whoop what Victor Herbert looked like. They will want to (and will) hear Allan Jones and Mary Martin sing Victor Herbert's lilting tunes with freshness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...final game of the evening saw Leverett, after coming within sight of victory during the first half, bow before a superior Dormitory combine, 4 to 1. The out-of-House team included a number of veteran pucksters who are ineligible for the Varsity squad because they are on probation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORIES LEAD IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...bow with humility and pride that you wish to dedicate this year's Year Book to me. For me the ultimate tribunal of approval will always be the students of law, and more particularly, the students of the Harvard Law School," wrote Frankfurter in a letter accepting the dedication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Album Honors Famous Alumnus | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...between Japan and Soviet Russia. The talks begin in November. Everyone knows how they are going to come out-as they always have, with a compromise which two fishermen could reach in an hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters off Sakhalin Island, the diplomats find themselves in sudden agreement, and sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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