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Word: cud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owensboro, Ky., a woman telephoned the police in the night, said a man was peeping in her window, that she was holding him at bay with a pistol. Rushing to the house, police found a cow, munching her cud, looking in the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Forthwith, from many a cover, svelte females simpered; deep-browed males smirked. All were ruminant. Their cud, readers learned, was PRIMLEY'S PEPSIN GUM. And Pioneer Thompson's illustrations dared even more. They caused apple-cheeked lasses to pedal CRESCENT, RAMBLER bicycles. Other lasses donned DR. WARNER'S CORALIE CORSETS, "Fitted to Living Models." Subscribers responded; magazines prospered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Death of an Agent | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...rational, hygienic Mosaic dietary laws are catalogued in Deuteronomy 14, which specifies that the flesh of only cloven-footed beats that chew their cud may be eaten-cattle, deer, etc. Cloven-footed hares and swine do not chew their cuds and are interdicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Seattle | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottomless Pit | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Antonio H. S. C. F. Eddy, end 21 5.11 175 Andover E. Greene, tackle 20 6.01 180 Andover J. H. Haas, back 20 5.10 180 Westport H. S. T. S. Hart, end 19 6.02 160 Taft H. T. Herr, guard 24 5.10 260 Andover A. Hulman, cud 21 5.11 173 Worcester R. E. Jordan, back 24 5.11 205 Exeter J. H. Joss, tackle 20 6.04 200 Taft D. J. Kelley, back 23 5.08 170 Worcester R. T. Knapp, back 24 5.11 162 Episcopal H. S. R. E. Landis, center 20 6.01 195 Hyde Park H. S. W. M. Lovejoy, center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICS OF UNIVERSITY AND YALE ELEVENS | 11/25/1922 | See Source »

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