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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better for a family to be on their own with a cow, a couple of sheep and a few chickens out in the open country than living on charity in the finest city in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...shown a hole in the ground. In this hole, commodious enough once one walks in, still lives Stalin's great-aunt. After merrymaking over bread and wine, she raised her glass, gave this thoughtful toast: "To the honored guest! To the illustrious relative who has gone to Mos cow! And to my venerable self who, as the eldest of this company, needs wine most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Stalin's Hole | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Klein Lauchheimer, 99, one of the twin sisters believed to be oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...first Austrian to be sentenced to death since Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss revived the death penalty to cow Nazis was a non-Nazi farm boy named Hans Breitweiser. Like the hero of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, he had resolved to marry a well-dowried girl, after he had seduced a poor one. His solution was to murder the poor girl last week, so bunglingly that she lived long enough to accuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Last Minute | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...Santa Gertrudis, achieved after many a year of experiments. It is a cross of Indian Brahma cattle, which are resistant to the tropical heat and diseases of southern Texas, and pure-bred shorthorns, one of the great English beef breeds. The result is a fat, sleek dark-red cow, both hardy and marketable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Texas Rumble | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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