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Word: slays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous sweetheart who lives next door, in order to be free to follow the grand passion inspired by the lady of the Rolls-Royce. In plenty of time and after many an antic he discovers that the Rolls-Royce lady is unworthy and returns peacefully to the girl next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase will be a placard explaining again that they were varanus komodensis, giant monitor lizards, descendants of Mesozoic dinosaurs, nocturnal, rapaciously carnivorous, fleet of foot, deaf, strong enough to slay a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dead Dragons | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...this is not a vacation--but a holiday. Of course one could suggest that remembrance of anyone is not necessarily the mental pleasure of a day that this time could be with profit, added to Christmas vacation. But few would agree. One must honor one's ancestors, and a slay without classes is such a true delight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLESSING OR BANE? | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

Leopards has been rigorously suppressed, but occasionally its members meet, don leopard skins, hunt down and slay a human, and partake of the remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...small red bull dashes around a bend on a frozen river pulling the lead trace of a sledge, a husky dog snapping at his hocks, a" nervous German prospector clinging to the baggage. ... A polar she-bear defends her cubs. . . . An Indian child and crone slay a swimming moose with a hand-ax. . . . A cunning wolf robs fishnets. . . . An Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: North of 53 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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