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Word: rowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawaii's rustling canebrakes had been deserted for eight weeks. No water flowed through the irrigation ditches; row after row of parched cane withered and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: The Great Sugar Strike | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...legislative confusion that confounded Wood-row Wilson in 1918 and Herbert Hoover in 1930 may appear again--while the United States writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: November Nightmare | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...Yesterday morning, Dr. Morton, Dentist, No. 19 Tremont Row . . . visited the... hospital, and administered his preparation to produce sleep, to a person about to undergo the operation of the extraction of a tumor from the neck. . . . The patient did not manifest the slightest symptoms of suffering. ... He appeared to be totally insensible to what was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ether Centennial | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Ever since twenty of, time had almost stopped in the section, and Vag caught himself looking at his wristwatch for what must have been the fifth or sixth time. The instructor, unheard, went doggedly on. Vag grimaced and began watching the rest of the room from his back-row seat. He saw with satisfaction the guy directly in front of him--the one who always knew answers--pause in his note-taking to glance at the electric wall clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

...Little Cheyenne" and "the Levee," were solid with gambling joints, peep shows, flophouses and saloons, and harbored the riffraff of half a continent. The First Ward's blocks of bordellos ran from haughty establishments like the Everleigh house (wine: $12 downstairs; $15 in a room), to a "Bedbug Row" of noisome prostitutes' cribs. The jangle of its pianos never stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Museum Piece | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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