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Word: wer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd to beg. Wer afrade to steel. We can't starve. So plees let Cocke and Cosby rest 10 days til we get started again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...demonstration in the Square was only the beginning of a big evening. After changing their wer, snow covered clothes, victors and vanquished invaded Boston and both shared equally in the general elation as the night wore on. Not a seat was available any place in town after eight o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wild Celebrations Mark Aftermath of Crimson's Win Over Frank's Bulldogs | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...aware that Der Führer has ever withdrawn from the Catholic Church." Declared Herr Hitler's own Realmchancellery: "Adolf Hitler was born a Catholic, baptized a Catholic and is still a Catholic, although not a practising Catholic in the ordinary churchgoing sense." The latest German Wer Ist's (Who's Who) plainly lists Der Führer as "Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...first time the limousines wer kept moving briskly, the ladies alighted with record speed, did their waiting inside Buckingham Palace, safe from the jokes and jibes of London's unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reno, Grand Rapids, Las Vegas | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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