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Word: dykes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Married. Bryan Wallace, British scenarist, son of the late thriller-author, Edgar Wallace; and Wydoline Van Dyke Jones of Columbus, Ohio; in Rome. Because the State Department would not give her a passport to go to England, they had to go to Italy to meet and marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Hrdlicka still said No. Commentator Hooton changed his metaphor: "It now begins to appear that the perennial heroism of one Dutch boy at the dyke is likely to prove insufficient to stop the in creasing trickles of fossil man through the geological defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horatius at the Bridge | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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