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Word: motheaten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...clapboard torture house, built by the Japs on the campus of Shanghai American School, was gone; its victims' screams no longer echoed down Avenue Pétain in the city's old French quarter. But over the Georgian school buildings flew a motheaten U.S. flag; S.A.S. was in session again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: S. A. S. | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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