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Word: strays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never can tell when a stray Jap will be driving around the Yard at three in the morning, so it was perfectly understandable when the Navy guard stopped a car touring past the dorms at that unseamanly hour. He accosted the man: "Halt. Who goes there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mythical President Conant Kidnapped From Limousine | 2/5/1943 | See Source »

Gist of the Hall sermons: pray, drive the devil out, live right, read the Bible. Pastor Hall never asks for donations, but he gets enough for rent, food, rummage-sale clothes and stray dollars to give away "if the person seems worthy." When he tires, three elderly women spell him, but the Pastor is apt to preach from early morning to midnight. Says he: "My only worry is that I'm so happy I hate to go to bed at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Circle 6-6483 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...with small caves, but Aitken's Cave, near Milroy, is the most accessible. All banded bats were found in the same cave as in previous years. Even bats that had been carried off and released far away were back again. Only once did Mohr find an intruder: this stray bat's own cave had been sealed by a rockfall during the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home-Loving Bats | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape to Maine | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters, Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...

Author: By S. D. C., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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