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Word: hooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Swilin' Time | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Little Hall fire charred eight feet of wooden flooring and caused about $350 worth of damage on Tuesday morning before hook and ladder apparatus were called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLAZES SPUTTER IN SEVER, LITTLE HALLS | 3/22/1946 | See Source »

...Three hook-and-ladder trucks, the fire chief's car, a pumping truck, and an emergency wagon were employed to carry one hose (small size) to the scene of the disaster. Slumbering Puritans, Bellboys, and Bunnies awoke for a half-hour of enjoyable confusion. Nobody had any marshmallows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fireman, Save My Bacon' Cry Sleepy, Smoked Puritans | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

...rattletrap Chevvie, parks wherever he can find space, and pauses for a long look at the snow-capped Coast Range mountains across the sound before entering his office. His students worship him. So do war veterans, not one of whom he has turned away. Said Larry Mackenzie: "By hook or by crook we'll make room for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U.B.C.--Sis-Boom-Ah | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Punishment | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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