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Word: strays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catch the wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield. As he tires, he returns to his home range, begins to run in ever narrowing circles like a fox. At the kill, the hounds pile on their prey, often smother him before they have ripped him badly with their teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Texas Wolf Hunt | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...leader of a band of Bowery urchins who play harmonicas on street corners to pick up stray pennies, Miss Temple accidentally crashes the high society of the 1930's and finally ends up playing little Eva in "Uncls Tem's Cabin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

Encouraged by the results of six tours conducted for Freshmen during the week after the Tercentenary, Arthur Hamlin '34, Curator of the Poetry Room, now plans a second series which will give upperclassmen a chance to stray off the narrow beaten path...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOURS OF WIDENER TO BE OFFERED STUDENTS | 10/6/1936 | See Source »

...world already has access to the collected wisdom of its seers. But prefers to live by its inherited folly. This government, for example, has unlimited opportunity to examine into the eternal treacheries of war; yet it has dispatched four battleships to the European waterfront, so that any stray shells might have something solid to bring up against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

...sorts of people, they often speak of their "former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God-Controlled Dictatorship | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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