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Word: cats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobby stood under sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dogged Man | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Lord Catto last week explained his crest, which is "Touch not gloveless." Said he: "It Is a Scots motto, and means literally, do not touch the cat with a gloveless hand; it may scratch you. Appropriate, yes, but it has nothing to do with my name. The College of Heralds would not make a pun, you snow. Catto means fight, battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Up Catto | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...several shirts from an Army camp. Said the boy: "I wanted to have some souvenirs to give to my grand children." Tyger, Tyger. In Los Angeles, Leo Winter was fined $500 for misapplication of ration points in spite of his explanation that he and his wife and his cat had eaten 495 Ib. of meat between November 5 and December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Patrick's Day the President outdid himself in his annual curtsy to the Irish vote. He went beyond the regular green tie to appear resplendent in green tweed suit, green-striped tie and green carnation, a pot of green shamrocks and a green cat on his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Early this month Staff Sergeant Jack Foisie returned to the U.S. from the Mediterranean area to report on the home front for the Stars & Stripes. Last week Reporter Foisie turned up in San Francisco, made news himself by letting a big service cat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - One Night at Gela | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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