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Word: decoyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting as a decoy, Adolph Woermann ran down toward Capetown, last week scuttled herself when overhauled by a British patrol. Lighthouses were doused, radio to ships cut off, harbor restrictions applied all around the coast of the Union of South Africa, for fear of hungry Admiral Scheer, angry Windhuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Decoy lighting to deceive enemy airplane pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...that Louis XIV (Louis Hayward) would grow up into an arrogant wastrel, his brother Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...which worked with almost monotonoun regularity was Struck's tackle jab on which he reversed his field as soon as he crossed the line of scrimmage. But this does not mean that no deception was employed. Struck often travelled several yards before the Princeton secondary turned from chasing a decoy tail back busy rounding one of the flanks. That Struck did most of the ball carrying was strategy in itself. The whole Princeton attack was designed to stop Torb Macdonald...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Eleven Smashes Losing Streak, Downing Princeton 34-6 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dean of Bootleggers | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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