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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gandhi's son Ramdas poured sacred cow's milk into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: At the Three Rivers | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Bootleg. In Bucklin, Kans., Farmer R. D. McColm investigated a decline in his cow's milk production, discovered that a pig had been beating him to the draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Stooges | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Died. John Avery Lomax, 80, pioneer collector of U.S. folksongs; of a heart attack; in Greenville, Miss. Portly, amiable Lomax recognized American balladry as folk art, traveled through cow country and mining camps, saloons 'and prisons, discovered and recorded such classics as Home on the Range and Goodbye Old Paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...army rated him 75% invalid) wanted his only daughter to do everything he couldn't, and to do it well. He called her "Tinker"-a nickname nobody else ever used-and she thought her daddy was something pretty special. When Clyde Scott hobbled around the nine-hole cow-pasture golf course at Kingsmere in the summers, "Tinker" caddied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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