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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unholy Cow. In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Indians burned as they padded along the teeming Chandni Chauk. In the brassy glare, the flowering trees near the Viceroy's residence seemed to bear sparks rather than blossoms. The rind of an orange would shrivel the moment it was peeled from its fruit. Here & there an exhausted cow rested, sacred and undisturbed, in the traffic lanes of the boulevards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...gulf between Moslem and Hindu had always been real, but Jinnah dug it deeper. Last Christmas Day, Jinnah's 69th birthday, he summed up his demand for two nations. "I want to eat the cow the Hindu worships. . . . The Moslem has nothing in common with the Hindu except his slavery to the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann). As a full professor, Spencer will earn $9,600; the Boylston Chair itself pays only in prestige, though legend accords its holder the right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Cow for Spencer | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

That the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory has the right to tether a cow in Cambridge Common was denied by Boylston Professor Spencer in an an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. What's more he seems to be right, despite Time Magazine's quoting of the legend which was also quoted by the CRIMSON last Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blocked in Cow Grazing, Spencer Discusses New Courses in Writing | 4/20/1946 | See Source »

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