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Word: moo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best sign from the Crimson point of view was the Varsity sweep of the 50-yard dash, with Moo Young, Tom Goethals, and Bill Bingham crossing the line in that order. Bill Trainor and Eli Berman, two other dash men on whom Coach Jaako Mikkola will have to rely to fill in for Second Lieutenant Doug Pirnie, did not take part in the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Repeat Win Over Jumbos In Informal Meet | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...mayor said it would "take 27,000 men or women to turn off by hand the street lights. . . . There are 27,000 separate switches." The Board of Estimate appropriated $25,000 for sirens. One horn was tried. Citizens a few blocks away, anxiously listening, heard nothing but a faint moo. Most people heard nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Confused & Unprepared | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...desolate sounds were heard in Newark, N.J. The sounds brought a vague disquiet to the hearts of young people returning from the movies, to milkmen beginning their rounds. Here & there a suburban householder, coming home late, could have sworn that he heard under his very feet the melancholy, muffled moo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Moos from a Manhole | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant moo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shooting at Fort Worth | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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