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Word: cloven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lips and rubbed his hands. "You will be pleased at what I did. But, of course, my being named Gestapo Commissar General of all German Occupied Territory in May was only a promotion for what I had done before." The Devil pawed at the sulphurous earth with a cloven hoof. At last he said: "Go ahead then; start from the beginning." "Well, I killed my first man," Heydrich said, "when I was 15-fighting the Reds and the Republicans in the streets of my home town of Halle in Saxony. That was in 1919. I'm 38 now. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Coach George Manger of Penn, on the other hand, who also lost his greatest offensive threat of last year, Frank Reagan, has been able to mold together quite a formidable array of talent-drawing upon the reserves from last year's Centennial cloven and from last season's Freshman squad, reputed to be one of the best ever to wear the Red and Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL-- | 10/4/1941 | See Source »

...rolling combined, a great silence fell upon the ship. . . . The little Niger hippopotamus ... lay down with his head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Balzac for the Beasts? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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