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Word: unslung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intention of re-employing the Roerichs." In Manhattan, Roerich's chief financial backer, Louis L. Horch, a broker later turned bureaucrat, who had put more than $1,000,000 into the Riverside Drive Museum, went to court to get back control of the building. The thousand paintings were unslung from the museum walls. Later the U.S. Government sued Roerich for back taxes. Pegler devoted 25 columns to suggesting that Wallace wrote letters calling Roerich "Dear Guru" (Teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Silver Valley | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Town Hall the German commander unslung his service pistol and laid it on the Burgomaster's desk with a flourish. With an equal flourish Cock Sparrow Max unslung his service fountain pen and laid it beside the pistol. He refused, however, to shake hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Two Burgomasters | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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