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Word: maa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Rising at Mahwah | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

What makes this year's Big Red roll? Not Matuszcak (pronounced maa-too'-shack), the quick-thinking quarterback whose genius at calling plays is exceeded only by his downfield blocking nor Landsberg, the spinner specialist who can wriggle through a hole and run like a doubling fox, nor McCullough, nor Murphy, nor Bufalino, nor Schmuck, nor any of the other Big Red ball hawks who can not .only throw and catch but almost smell a pass coming their way. Cornell rolls because it is a coordinated machine with a beautifully balanced running and passing attack. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Red | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Tethered to stakes at varying distances from the pole were 84 goats munching grass, occasionally maa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Explosion | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...goats munched, maa-aa-ed, waggled their dripping whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Explosion | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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