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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than two years ago Mrs. Lottie Wolf, wife of Detroit's wiping-rag tycoon, hired Lipiec to build up a stable, gave him his big chance. The best way to get ready-to-run horseflesh in a hurry was to buy it on the race track's huge super-market-the claiming race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pint-Sized Pirate | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the best of these tales have the fragile beauty, the perfection of form of snow crystals. Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf is typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse & Moujik | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with Gray Wolf, King Dolmat, King Afron, Elena the Fair, and Death, are a story that is as ferally haunting as the flight and cry of wild swans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse & Moujik | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Only two topical books, General Marshall's Report-The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific and Professor Henry de Wolf Smyth's Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (popularly known as the Smyth Report on the atom bomb) measured up at all to the year's massive events. And in a field not commonly of concern to laymen, there appeared, not by plan, but apparently in response to a growing human need, a swatch of books on philosophy, religion and related subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year's Books | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...aging queen promptly promoted Leicester's stepson, the Earl of Essex, to her old favorite's place. She also gleefully hounded the widowed "she-wolf" until she had got back every penny Leicester owed her. But she kept a soft spot in her heart for her old favorite. On the note that the dying man had sent her from the country, she wrote, "His last letter," and laid it away in a chest beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Robin | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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