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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donning the mask of Theocritus, and preceded by three Yard cops playing on the pipes of Pan, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, Chief of the Yard Police, Hawkshaw, big game hunter, and four-letterman extraordinary, disporting himself in true pastoral tradition, yesterday added a cow to the trophies that grace the Apted Trophy Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BIG GAME HUNTERS PLACE COW AMONG TROPHIES | 5/4/1935 | See Source »

Attacking said cow, which belongs to the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, armed only with a hacksaw and speeded by the well wishes of the mob, the Colonel outdid himself in consummating the capture alive, in contrast to his epic adventure with the skunk last spring. Fred Hoeing, notorious woodchuck tracker, Harvard's other big game hunter, last night sent the Colonel his hearty congratulations by telegraph, collect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BIG GAME HUNTERS PLACE COW AMONG TROPHIES | 5/4/1935 | See Source »

...test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bug | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Members of the Harvard archaeological expedition to Egypt headed by Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, are reported to be working on the site of ancient turquoise mines at Serabit which has long been famous for its ruined temple of the goddess Hather. She is usually represented with cow's horns and wearing a moon-shaped disc...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirsopp Lake at Serabit to Excavate Temple of Goddess Hathor, the Woman With Cow's Horns | 4/24/1935 | See Source »

...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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