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Word: slays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey returned last week to the role in which the public knows him best. He was out to slay another dragon: this time the iron-scaled political monster which has dominated Albany for 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Dewey & Dragon | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...earliest and tersest prophets, a Roman sibyl, may well claim the record for prophetic realism. Said she: "There shall be no end to war in this world. They all shall slay one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through a Glass, Darkly | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...m.p.h., dust-laden, southerly wind. Arabs have named the maddening wind khamsin (which means 50) because it seems to last for 50 days. Actually it subsides in less than a week, but if it blows longer than five days, tribal law provides no punishment for distracted Arabs who slay their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Surprise Attack | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Miss Lamarr-thanks to careful directing-is something of a revelation herself. Hitherto, the undulant Viennese has been asked to do little but stand around and slay the male section of the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Government, out to slay a Fascist dragon, still had enough time to pop at field mice. In a Minneapolis courtroom the Department of Justice triumphantly snagged a nestful of mice: 18 Trotskyites convicted of advocating the overthrow of the Government. Only hope for the mice was in an appeal. They vowed they would take their squeaking case all the way to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Mice Apprehended | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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