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Word: preyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morally straight as a sceptre, physically supple and strong as a beast of prey is the mightiest man in the Middle East, King Ibn Saud. Last week he changed the name of his realm which has been "The Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd and Its Dependencies." Renaming this huge desert hodgepodge partly after himself, tall, frowning Ibn Saud christened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF SAUD: Kingdom Christened | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Manhattan an anonymous fanatic painted in red letters on Grant's Tomb: The good but starve; the order of the day Is prey on others or become a prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Couplet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...electric chair is warming for its prey when the girl turns and saves her brother by pretending on the witness-stand to be an abandoned hussy, devoid of feel ing of any kind. This draws the jury's hate to herself, the brother is acquitted, as was youthful Edward Allen in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...ranks. Reports were heard that wives with children were on the march to join their husbands at Bonus City. Police officials hoped the B. E. F. would soon start to disintegrate. One general fear was that homeward-bound veterans, hungry, penniless, desperate, would form roving bands which would prey upon the countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: B. E. F. (Cont'd) | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Irish, consecrated 350 bishops, among them a friend of his named St. MacCarthem. Traditionally he drove the snakes from old Erin, howling "Faugh-a-ballaugh!" On what is now Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Dublin | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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