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Word: ewes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roguish Girl, Ah, she's a pearl With feet as swift and true- As the legs of any ewe; I'll tell you boys she's here to win, And from now on it looks as if You will be drinking the better grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roguish Girl | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Enclosed herein is a snapshot of a freak sheep that may be termed a "Unicorn." You will note that it has a horn on the end of its nose. This is a three-year-old ewe (female sheep), raised on the range in this district, Ely, Nev. The picture was taken in April 1936 and shows the animal after shearing. It's a freak and not a transplanted horn. Presumed the picture would be of interest to you. D. A. HUGHES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Bulls, Stone Sheep | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...chest section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull. . . . At no time was Pickett on the bull's back nor did he ever bite the animal's nose. It is one thing to "bulldog" or wrestle with a ewe-necked steer and quite another to tackle a well-developed fighting bull. Pickett found this out, much to his consternation. Owing to the much greater thickness of the bull's neck, instead of being able to lock his fingers together, the tips were barely touching. This made his hold very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...being March, and the Butlerian cycles being immutable, the ewe lamb is confidently expected to arrive in Augusta this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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