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Word: moat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited liability' is impossible, and also that to enter upon war with any idea of conserving our strength is to invite defeat. The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical. We conducted all our wars until the last on the policy of profiting by our sea-moat and seapower to limit our liability . . . and had a sustained run of success in, and after, them that no other modern nation has known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense Is the Best Attack | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Kensuke Horinouchi (his name means: "In the Moat") smiled his toothiest smile last week and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Few Reasons | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Retribution | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Last week fate struck back at the two-ton wife-killer. Children were tossing peanuts across the moat to Bill. Reaching for a weakly-tossed one, Bill greedily leaned forward, teetered, landed pomph on the concrete floor of the moat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Retribution | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Bill's rescue came Brooklyn's Police, Park and Sanitation Departments, hoisted him out of the moat, placed him before Veterinarian Harry Nimphius. Diagnosis: partial fracture of the right hipbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Retribution | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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