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Word: sow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 2,000 men and 200 ships (the number asked) last week answered the British Admiralty's call for volunteers to sweep mines, which in a fortnight sank 27 ships off England's coasts. A British mine-laying force went out to sow a new field between the Thames River and the mouth of the River Scheldt on Belgium's coast, to bottle Germany's submarine mine layers farther up into the North Sea. French patrols safely brought in some convoys of merchantmen carrying war supplies from the U. S.; France announced sinking seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Quiet But Fierce | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...future. Now he has a band of willing boys who have much natural ability, and the chances of moulding them into a first-class operating unit are infinitely better. In many respects, the impossible task facing Coach Fesler last year was to make a slick purse out of a sow...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Sylvia Sidney, 29, (née Ko-sow), sad-eyed cinemactress; and Luther Adler, 36, legitimate actor (Golden Boy); their first child, a son, in Manhattan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Concordat "will sow dissension . . . where now there is peace and harmony . . . between the more Protestant-minded and the more Catholic-minded members of our communion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Discordant Concordat | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

That was all for Joy Allen Duncan and her Auntie, who, Joy neglected to say, lost her 13-year-old daughter in the sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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