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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commemoration of the vent the picturesque little dairy town is staging a "Milk Day" celebration to be high lighted by the award of a Harvard honorary degree to its best cow. The degree is M. D., Dector of Milk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Ill., Cows View for Degree | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...town's Chamber of Commerce recently wired President Conant, beseeching him to select the cow-to-be honored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Ill., Cows View for Degree | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

Parnell really buzzed the day that young Ben, who had ridden cow ponies on his father's farm since he was four, thundered down Main Street in an impromptu match race for $5 a side. There also came the day when a riot was threatened after he single-handedly attacked a group of Italians and felled one of them with a stone; his father hustled Ben off to a logging camp until things cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Young Progressives of America also issued a leaflet. Because it charged that O'Dwyer had "cow-towed" to "elements of the N.Y.C. Catholic Hierarchy, the Catholic War Veterans, and the notorious pro-Coughlin paper, 'The Tablet'," this leaflet aroused much interest on the campus...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, David E. Lilienthal jr., and John G. Simon, S | Title: 'Radical' Students Face Pressures on Campus | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...donkey's equivalent of a lead cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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