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Word: drowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard student who dove off the Weeks Bridge to protest Deanna Durbin's marriage should be more considerate. Think how she will feel when she learns he did not drown! --From the Globe (April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/29/1941 | See Source »

...corrupted system full of fat and death." Says Librarian MacLeish, with a glance over his shoulder at Authoress Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "The famous woman who assures us in a beautiful and cadenced prose that democracy is old in every country, and that the future like a wave will drown it down, accepts the same alternatives of terror and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Union Station | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...plain, unvarnished days of the Russian Revolution, the Chekists used to keep batteries of automobile engines constantly running to drown out the human and mechanical sounds from the execution cellars. As Russia sought to "catch up with and surpass capitalist technology," less garish techniques were found for silencing the human voice. Few of the men & women who might tell how Communism really works ever escaped to tell. The handful who did* were defeated by a twofold irony: 1) they were suspect as Communists, doubly suspect as ex-Communists; 2) the things of which they tried to warn the world were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Collapse | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...Germans is high. He has had time out from his military career to make a success of running war industries (rubber, planes, steel). Lately he has been chief liaison man with the German General Staff. His promotion and the official fanfare that went with it did not, however, drown out much angry comment by well-beloved old Badoglio's adherents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Surprise No. 6 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...enthusiastically wailing plugs for Art Week. On nearby sidewalks pretty models paraded with paintings stuck to them like sandwich boards. In Rochester the art show in the Civic Exhibits Building vied for honors with a poultry show where a human crowing contest was in progress, hired an orchestra to drown out the crowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Week of Weeks | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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