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Word: cowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius- | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch" (down which has poured millions in gold). What of it? Main streets must run somewhere. It may be a bit winding; but doesn't Boston have a street or streets said to have been laid out by a trail-blazing cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...throughout the country: a Delaware seaport changed its name to Odessa in the hope of bolstering its trade (and promptly became a ghost town). Last week in Moscow, Idaho, seat of the State University, proposals for a new name included: 1) Borah, 2) Tat-Kin-Mah, 3) Paradise, 4) Cow. Meantime Mayor Henry Hansen sent off $176.46 for Finnish Relief, wrote that Moscow citizens wanted Finns to know that not all Muscovites were against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Name | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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