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Word: crow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Errand. In a perfect democracy, run without hitch, Truman would never have been returned to the Senate in 1940. A majority of Missouri Democrats, in full revolt against the machine, opposed him in the primary. But Attorney Milligan and ex-Governor Lloyd Crow Stark split the opposition vote, and Truman slipped in with an 8,000-vote plurality. For a nation whose Administration, army and war contractors are not perfect either, it has turned out to be a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion-Dollar Watchdog | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...game in the circuit. At the other forward is Captain Chuck Vigners, a veteran of countless cage campaigns. Jack Colberg, who tallied 19 points in the Penn massacre of Yale, is at center, with Larry Davis and Pat Sholvin, a capable pair, at the guards. They are an awesome crow...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Fire-Breathing Quaker Five Engages Crimson in Ivy League Game Here | 2/24/1943 | See Source »

Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/24/1943 | See Source »

...worried because he had killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Unusual & Different Punishment | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Cocky, independent automaker Studebaker Corp. - which was in receivership in 1933-35 - last week had something it could really crow about: its 1942 munitions out put will hit $215,000,000, twelve times its total World War I arms production and double its biggest peacetime year. Main reason: the company's remarkable ability in mass-producing intricate, 8,000-part, 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclone engines for giant four-engined U.S. bombers. Studebaker turns them out in huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: South Bend Speedster | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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