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Word: prowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to stop further damage, Yard police, reinforced by prowl cars from the Cambridge police, were stopping all pedestrians in the area surrounding the Houses and in the Yard. They demanded bursars cards for identification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...Civil War novels, it rustles with crinolines and chivalry, tells its story through the decline of an aristocratic family. But Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on the prowl, lightly dandling a hedge wench named Lucy Hanks in some hidden thicket ... had fathered Abraham Lincoln's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crinolines & Corruption | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Wiser, some sadder, and a few disillusioned, a hundred young women in the Radcliffe summer secretarial and publishing courses not only pack up shorthand notebooks for the last time at Longfellow Hall today, but also mixed impressions of the Harvard male on warm weather prowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Students Pack Up Troubles | 8/8/1947 | See Source »

...wolf who loves to roam & prowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Rhymes on the Road | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

They did not drench the entire five square miles with DDT. Instead, fly expert Dr. C. H. Curran began to prowl the park, mapping it from a fly's point of view. From intimate knowledge of fly psychology, he knew what places they would consider beauty spots, where they would go for refreshment, amusement and procreation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flyless Mountain | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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