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Word: victimized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican road runner is a long-beaked, shaggy-feathered bird about the size of a partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Tied for first in the local Class A league, the malletmen list West Point as their only other college victim. Next week the team will invade the West, facing army teams in Cincinnati and Cleveland, and the Cornell trio at Chicago on Saturday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

When the quivering criminal who was nabbed in a pawn shop told investigators he "knew something" about the robbery here, the Providence force got in touch with colonel Apted who dashed off with a staff of witnesses to identify the victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR GREENOUGH DIES IN DELMONT | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...victim of mistaken identity, Ferdinand F. B. Bruck '41 was almost on the threshold of the Union Friday evening before he discovered he had the wrong blind date for the Freshman Dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOY MEETS GIRL FOR '41 HOP; BUT IT'S NOT THE RIGHT GIRL | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened to have his sister sign a three-month commitment. Thoroughly alarmed, Patient Carlin loudly demanded his freedom. After three anxious days, his "sister" arrived and he was able to warn her against signing the commitment which the doctors urgently advised. After two more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crazy Carlin | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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