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Word: cats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also serve who only stand and wait - and more often than not this cat-at-every-mousehole policy eventually pays dividends in the kind of vivid, human stories we hope you have come to count on in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 4, 1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Last week Kentucky's courtly, blue-eyed Colonel Ed, 68, his back still shot gun-straight in a 6-ft.-2-in. frame, his tread still cat-smooth, announced his retirement, effective Nov.1. After nearly three decades on the White House detail, U.S. Secret Service, Colonel Ed was going fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Changing the Guard | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Bull wheels turned again at Norman Wells. New wells came in. Tractors cat-walked along the timbered slopes and the boulder-flooded valleys. Trucks labeled "Canol" (for "Canadian Oil") labored up new-made roads. Men sweated their way through mosquitoes and muskeg; swatted themselves for warmth through the winter. By this year's end, Canol's builders hope to have the pipelines and the refinery in operation. But men who watched wondered in what good time, and at what cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Gas for the Planes to Asia | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Tambo, I disagree wid you; suppose dat de cat's tail should be accidemptally singed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gentlemen, Be Seated | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...journey 'round de world like a cat's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gentlemen, Be Seated | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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