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Word: owls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Depositing his loot in a barrel in an empty storage room on the top floor of F entry at about 2 o'clock in the morning, with a crash which did not arouse the suspicions of night-owl thesis workers, this year's version of Snooperman pounded down the stairs before chase could be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Regain Silver Lost In Daring Spoonerman Raid | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

...committees of the organizations. Other amounts were submitted to the office of the Harvard chapter and to the Boston organization. Freshmen $512.34 Adams House 333.35 Dunster 150.60 Eliot 291.75 Kirkland 329.62 Leverett 151.75 Lowell 489.00 Winthrop 381.95 Iroquois Club 35.00 Fly Club 165.50 Signet Club 9.00 Fox 49.50 Owl Club 112.50 Business School Students 69.25 Law School Students 198.50 Medical School Students 221.00 Non-Resident Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Fund Total Falls $2,200 Short of Quota | 2/14/1942 | See Source »

...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tainted Air | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children's list. In the current lot are: Long-Name-No-Can-Say (about a Chinese baby with a long name); One String Fiddle (about a Tennessee mountain boy named Irby and his dog Billiam) ; Owl and the Pussy Cat and Other Nonsense Songs-verses by Edward Lear, old friend to many a parent, deftly set and orchestrated for the first time (except the title song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Fidelity. In Medford, Ore., a hunter found his missing bird dogs in the parlor, pointing an owl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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