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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Did last week's storm warnings foreshadow another economic hurricane like 1920's? If so, Macari and other forward-looking henequeneros thought they could weather it. There are new uses for Yucatán fibers in the U.S. to make up for the decreasing use of binder twine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Enough Rope | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Also on the speaker's platform sat about 50 of Oxfordshire's leading Tories-solid, well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pathos at Blenheim | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Like the good neighbors they are, the U.S. and Canada have had no big rows for a long time. But for weeks, over one of the smaller problems in neighborhood relations, they have been going at each other like suburbanites screaming across the fence about footprints in a flower bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Neighborhood Row | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Haines added that the oarsman would be lucky to graduate from a wherry in less than 20 to 25 rows in one.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haines Has Quiet Summer; Singles Take Over at Weld | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

The little girl who last term cast doe-eyed looks at you from her seat two rows away isn't doing so badly now, thank you. At any rate, she isn't if she was a member of Radcliffe 1947.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Job Lines Queue Outside School, Office; Altar Trails Behind | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

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