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Word: shoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring Sunday in 1788, a small boy climbed up a ladder behind New York Hospital and peeked into the dissecting room where doctors were studying the anatomy of corpses. To shoo the child away, so the story goes, a doctor went to the window, brandished a human arm and severely declared: "It's your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Riot | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...recreational facilities, their youngsters might spend less time in bars and roadhouses. A curfew and parental ban on juvenile driving were proposed but quickly rejected as too hard to enforce. The parents temporized by agreeing to try to make their children come home earlier at night; police promised to shoo minors away from bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jalopy Scandal | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...Philippines, and the first hostile bullets of his life scared him badly. Last week, 38 years later, General Douglas MacArthur was back in the Philippines fighting the toughest battle of his life. But he was not scared. As the bombs whistled down near him, an orderly tried to shoo him to a dugout. "Give me a cigaret, Eddie," said MacArthur, and went on watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destiny's Child | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...Shoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Tonopah, Nev., Mrs. Emery Garrett found a coyote prowling among her turkeys, yelled "Shoo!" It did - through a window of her house into the bathtub, where Mrs. Garrett's nephew, Harry Lewis, shot the baffled creature dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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