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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunce plans for the future include more House performances, a possible WHRV broadcast, and the donning of a new uniform. This uniform, Dunces announce, will consist simply of a red, "but scarlet red," bow...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Dunster's Dunces Sing Almost Anything for Diners, Dancers, Barflys, Coeds, Frappes | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Woop Machine Rolls in Bow Polls | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

...week. He had been captured twice before, had twice escaped. This time he was ambushed by native constabulary after having been 18 months in the jungle. Though his uniform was in shreds, his feet wrapped in filthy rags, he had not forgotten his manners. He submitted with a reverent bow to the British commandant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOLOMON ISLANDS: Bow | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...weather," some 30,000 Glaswegians gathered one day last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Gamble | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...million Caronia will have the new Cunard look: single funnel, single mast, sharp clipper bow and a cruiser stern. The Caronia will carry only two classes on its nine decks, on winter cruises and the dollar-rich transatlantic trade. Britain has to get more of her share of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Gamble | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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