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Word: yowled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

They let themselves go, like Bill Hanley of the Bell A Ranch. He kept a coyote as a pet and when he got too worried he would sit down and yowl and start the coyote yowling with him. He said: "Man's only job is to deliver what is in him to the age he lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pioneer People | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: A Survivor Talks | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Before a House subcommittee last month, Major General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, unbagged a cat, which set up a muted yowl. The cat: news that the crack-shooting Marine Corps was less than satisfied with the Garand semi-automatic rifle, Army-sponsored successor to the reliable, bolt-action 1903 Springfield. With a firm grip on the cat's collar, General Holcomb said discreetly: "We are not certain yet that the Garand rifle will meet our needs. We will know in the course of the next two months whether it is a better rifle than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Marines' Rifle | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Tyrannosaurus, king of all prehistoric beasts, yip, yowl or yodel? Was he a tenor, or a bass?", wrote Hal Roach Studios to Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology and expert in paleontology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING VOICE IN DINOSAUR STALLS HAL ROACH STUDIOS | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

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