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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girdled her waist. On each arm was a bracelet hung with draperies. The wood was well preserved, with few barnacles or seaweed, and traces of white, blue, green, gold and red paint glowed faintly. Rusty iron bolts showed where the figure had been fastened to a ship's bow. With the help of other islanders, Repetto brought the figurehead by boat to Tristan's settlement. There it was repainted, mounted at the base of the flagstaff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRISTAN DA CUNHA: Lily Maiden | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, whose delicate spire still stands, though the body of the church was wrecked by a direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Among the Ruins | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...policeman's hut while he was inside. Later they eluded the police by sawing a hole through the iron railings around the park. Once they constructed a fiddle to frighten the neighbors. It had a box four feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, and a bow twelve feet long. It emitted an unearthly bellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Machine Age of Innocence | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Mother Advocate made good her threat to retaliate on those Bow Street boys with a secret weapon, in a deceptive attack last evening on the Poon Building, Yank Levy style. The secret weapon was unmasked and its effects gleam brightly on the portals to the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poon Prepares for Winter; Dons Warm Coat of Paint | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

...sinking our squawkbox sounded: 'Jap snooper is closing.' One cruiser opened fire with two destroyers joining. ... At 9:50 p.m. the squawkbox said: 'A group of planes is closing. They are dropping float lights. Another group is off our starboard bow, now closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Paradise into Hell | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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