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Word: skirled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Causeway dwindled off. Finally, with a touch of ceremony such as only the British could devise in such circumstances, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who had been the first Britons to meet the Japanese up Thailand way, marched across, the last to leave Malaya. They marched to the defiant skirl of an Argyll bagpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Across the Causeway | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Chicago this week, amid bellows, oinks, neighs and baas, with the skirl of a bagpipe band, exuberant farmers gathered for the 42nd International Livestock Exposition. Rising demand for their products made farmers feel better than they have felt in years. The numbers of U.S. cattle, sheep and hogs, especially hogs, have shot up in the past five years from 160 to 180 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: More Tractors Wanted | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...minutes the attackers had taken Butch. In due course Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. Tiger, the stiffest of the four, was assigned to a famous Scottish regiment. It went into battle to a sound it loved-its pipe major, who had not been allowed to skirl his bagpipes in Tobruk, played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tobruk, After 33 Weeks | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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