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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should make haste!" cried Finance Minister Ernst Trygger of Sweden. "If we do not soon lower the tariff walls that are stifling inter-European trade it will be too late. As our Swedish proverb well says, 'While the grass is growing the cow dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Little Cornerstone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Radio Cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan one Nellie, a trick cow who moos soprano over the radio, was led through the streets on her way to rehearsal, caused a traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Rape was the charge against Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Tennessee Justice | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

British mystics were deep in thought last week, wondering whether they had found a symbolism between an occurrence at Dorsetshire and the ancient story of the lion and the unicorn. The occurrence: In a fair field of turnips near Lyme Regis* grazed Nelly, a young mother cow. Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf. There in the field was a tawny, muscular black-maned lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Nelly v. Wallace | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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