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Word: burrowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platypus amuses most people by its funny name and its funny face (see cut). A very primitive link between mammals and aquatic birds, the platypus is a duckbilled, web-footed, molelike creature that nurses its young. It nests in a burrow in a river bank. The female lays small (¾ in. long), soft-shelled eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of a Platypus | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Unless the Crimson basketball team spirit springs out of its hibernation and shows up with its pre-exam punch in tonight's contest with Columbia, it might as well burrow into its retreat for the rest of the season, taking with it one of the saddest basketball records in the recent history of the game at Harvard...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: LISTLESS HOOPSTERS FACE LIONS, ARMY | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

...reading in books. All the tomes will have been made over into microfilm reels, and cramming will be as good as going to the movies. After having filled up the open space between Widener and the Memorial Chapel with new library buildings, the College will have decided to burrow underground for excess storage space, and Weld will have collapsed into the Indic Philology and Semantics wing of the basement. Students will still learn in their Junior year that Widener is closed on Sundays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fantasia in D Minus | 2/3/1942 | See Source »

...burrow like a bunny father has his little lair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Down the Rabbit Hole | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...they lock him in his burrow when it's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Down the Rabbit Hole | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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