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Word: windedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Deer's proper nouns sometimes read best backwards). The Prince passed the Moaning Grove of Artanis and bested the famed Seven-headed Dragon. This wasn't really such a bold feat, because the Dragon ran by clockwork, and the Prince bribed the mechanic not to wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures In Thurberland | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Palm Beach for the winter. He says he has no political ambitions, that he is too old to return to public life. But he and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes are close friends, and he and Harry Truman have high regard for each other. Joe Kennedy might still wind up in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Kennedy Hits the Trail | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Last week this wretched, sleazy city was stark and rude, its colors mud-brown, grime-grey and the red of rusted iron roofing on shacks where bombed-out thousands lived. The wind, as characteristic of Tokyo as of Chicago, touched the rubble heaps, whined along the empty streets, but never quite carried away the ancient stench of fish and sewage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Modan City | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...darkness: "Don't I mean anything to you at all?" he could only say suddenly, "No, I guess you don't." And when they asked him in the Market Street bar what it was like out there, he could only repeat: "It was the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Beyond | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Supersonic wind-tunnels for studying missiles (like the V2) which move far faster than sound. The Navy is dismantling one such tunnel, will bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 41 Days under Water | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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