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Word: haystacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, an old-timer like me kind of missed the good old raccoon coats--they used to be sort of like a haystack--if you got bored with the game you could crawl inside and go to sleep...

Author: By Lavinia Dirndl, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1940 | See Source »

...call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said: "Mrs. Knowles, did you ever think what might happen to her in an Iowa haystack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Practical Parson | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime in August | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...days, nearly set a record. But with one more day to go, Straining Annie produced a canary-sized pellet, was retired to the dinner table, to see how far she would go there. After a flood, Mayor Tripp found a school of young salmon stranded in a haystack. They were perfectly happy because they had never known any other life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taleteller | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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