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Word: drowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Monday, they ate it cold the rest of the week. They were both nearly always ill, largely from undernourishment. Their lodgings were always depressing, dirty. Sometimes Sophie put cotton in her ears, sat down facing the wall, shut her eyes and sang at the top of her voice to drown out the scene. But to visitors they would never admit their poverty, would lie like troopers about their prospects and resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius, Died Young* | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Undefeated Harvard Mermen Drown Worcester Tech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEK-END SPORT SUMMARIES | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Chicago, Frank Seidler, 31, went out on a Lake Michigan pier to drown himself, but decided not to when he felt how cold the water was. On his way back to land he fell off the pier. A policeman rescued him. Seidler was grateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Puppy-seals learn to swim when they are a month or six weeks old; if they tumble into the water earlier they drown. Like all Pribilof seals, they take part in the winter excursion, leaving with their mothers in November. Female pups begin to bear young in three years. With the exception of the Indians' yearly toll only the adolescent "bachelor" seals are now allowed to be killed for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Parade to Pribilof | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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