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Word: windward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something," one member wrote, "that nobody can take away from you--it is a sheet to windward. . . the anchor in a storm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 99% of Women Graduates Favor College Education | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

...what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below. He valved gas out of the bag above his head, came down low and shouted, "Help!" A sailor on the deck of the steamer looked up. "What?" he cried, but the wind had carried Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Yale took first in the two-day regatta with 144 points, thereby qualifying along with Brown for the National Championships. The races were over a three-quarter mile windward-leeward course, and sailing conditions were almost ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Take Third in College Championship | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Senator Tydings: "In the last war the only powder . . . this scoundrel . . . ever smelled was in the presence of ladies who might have adorned the windward side of the parade ground ... A perpetual, chronic, revolving liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Color: Green. The big blow hit the Williamsburg directly abeam as she turned into narrow Windward Passage between Haiti and Cuba. Newsmen on the sturdier, broader-beamed Greenwich Bay, preceding the presidential craft, radiotelephoned the Williamsburg: "Can you give us any local color?" The reply: "Only what you can see looking out over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Exposure | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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