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Word: mule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayhem & Haw. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Herman Robertson sued Clyde Hunter for $1,500 damages, declared that Hunter had bitten off his lip, and that consequently his plow mule no longer understood his directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...more ominous) kind has been piling up on Greece's northwestern borders. Over the two main roads leading to villages on the Albanian side of the border, there has been a steady movement of convoys bringing up supplies. Nightly their lights bob and weave among the hills. Nightly mule trains wind across the rough hill tracks into Greece. Villages on the Albanian side of the border, for a depth of 30 miles, have been practically cleared of civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over the globe-by plane, train, boat, canoe, mule, and on foot-to bring back specimens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Absent Guest of Honor | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Kasia Orzazewski, and the Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss de Bergh's second husband, and the writers are to be congratulated for daring to suggest in a movie that a successful marriage need not be an eternity of ootchmagootch between a pair of raving beauties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Greatest Show On Earth" scratched its big top Monday and came up with a reply: "Of course a mule can sit on its buttocks-or 'bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circus Finds Low Down on Mules When Museum Balks | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

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