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Word: howling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight is Company DOG'S into to howl at the Hasty Pudding's Smoker Hall. The Platoons have been rehearsing their various skits all week and a lot of real good stuff is in the offing. Don't forget to get there early and be ready for a lot of laughs...

Author: By S. O. Merlvin parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

...first of these vernal mistakes is a rather loose-knit little clique instigated by someone known only to close subordinates as "The Howl." To everybody else "The Howl" looks like a loose-knit booby wearing a Win With Willkie mask and carrying a machete (a loose-knit pocket knife) and scaring the devil out of a couple of characters he found playing pinball in the lower reaches of J entry (left stairway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gimme a Yo-Yo, Says Howl, In Winthrop it is Spring | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...howl went up from Manhattan newspapers ; almost with one accord they asked "Why?" The arrests had been requested by the U.S. French naval chief, Vice-Admiral Raymond A. Fenard. Said the Fighting French: the sailors enlisted not for bribes or bonuses, but for moral reasons. Total enlistments: under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: North African Echo | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Army & Navy. Economic Czar Byrnes had stepped in to cut away the tangle-but no one was sure last week who would enforce the compromise he had laid down. Manpower Czar McNutt began stretching his muscles with a new work-or-fight order-and Congress promptly raised a howl. Czar Wickard was apparently frozen with fright at the horrible food prospects ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Trouble Ahead | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...With some effort I got my pack on my shoulders and trudged up the never ending road in front of me . . . the only nose that broke the stillness was the occasional howl of a lonesome coyote." He was finally picked up by a kindly traveller and from them on had comparatively little trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Gulliver in Hike to Harvard | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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