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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twittering, chirping, trumpeting, yipping, squawking, grunting, bristling, gibbering, jittering, wagging, scampering, squeaking, howling, yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fish, Flesh & Fowl | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Yankee Roberts of Missouri, using a peg, passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: At Renz's | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell has often pointed out how different is the attitude of American society from that of English society toward the achievements of its young men. An English university man is quite as proud when his son or brother or friend gets a "first" (i.e. our summa cum laude) as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAUSSIG LOOKS INTO FUTURE OF HARVARD LIVING | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

Surprised and happy was the Hoffman household last week when Craig Hoffman, wealthy New Jersey farmer, was brought home from jail. Brooding and resentful were the Polish mill workers of Manville, N. J. when they heard of Hoffman's release. Six weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 2) four ragged children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Town & Country | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

"Those places" were "joints," for in 1880 Kansas had made the ordinary saloon illegal. Thus it was that Carry became the bartenders' terror of the '90s-height, 6 ft.; weight, 180 Ibs.; broad of beam, with hard muscles, calloused hands and beady, defiant eyes. She began by trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christ's Bulldog | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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