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Word: drown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only sympathize with the Chinese revolutionists, but, if we could, we would gladly drown in Shanghai waters all who intervene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Orator Orating | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains. It was a new newspaper in Denver, the Morning Post. It had been started to drown out the Rocky Mountain News at the Rocky Mountain breakfast table in retaliation for an attack by the News' new owners upon the old-time Denver Post in the evening field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panders | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...sorrows drown...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

Sanders Theatre--Harvard-Princeton Musical Club Concert--8.45 o'clock. Old Nassau's Sons try to drown out Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. The audience loses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S GOING ON IN BOSTON TONIGHT | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

Suppose a radio station were set up at Moscow of sufficient potency to drown or "crash through" the programs of U. S. broadcasters. Suppose radio listeners in the grain and hog belts of the U. S. found their favorite station blotted out by an ether tidal wave of Communist propaganda. Would, or would not, the millions of U. S. listeners-in force the Administration into contact with the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Waves | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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