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Word: mule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known by his friends to have a prodigious memory. Recently he took a test, remembered all details of the most complicated timetables, thousands of dates and telephone numbers, the population of every parish in Italy; he knew the bandmaster and the march of every regiment, the name of every mule in the Italian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...crippled. Yes, and no. German shells tore him to pieces and he has gone through probably more hospitals in search of benefits to his general health than any other man. Crippled? Yes, a little physically, but stronger than horseradish and more healthy than a Missouri mule when it comes to mentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Wiser They Are. Bruce Ingram had an uncanny fascination for women. They buzzed about him like gnats on a Mississippi mule. When he came home from Europe he was pursued all the way to his apartment by a Junoesque married lady. "How did it happen?" asked his friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...week wore on, the swarms grew thicker. They swept through Mississippi, into Arkansas and Louisiana. Hordes of the stinging females would select a mule or cow, settle on it, ride out its frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Plague of Females | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Olympia, Wash, last week, Governor Roland H. Hartley vetoed the latest bill for a horse-cleaning of his State. Officially he wrote: "This bill says a mule is a horse. ... A horse might make a jackass out of itself, as did certain members of the present State Senate, but I would still be unwilling to convert a State Senator into a jackass by legislative enactment. This would be unfair to the jackass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: No Easter Chicks | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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