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Word: tomahawk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gilcrease speaks with the doeskin softness of the Creek Nation, and only after ponderous buffalo-like reflection. He has no tomahawk to grind. Gilcrease says: "I just want to present the facts about the conquest of the West and the way the Indian was treated-just present it and then set people thinking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No Tomahawk | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Midsummer Night's Dream. In Tomahawk, Wis., May June, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John July, was married to Mr. & Mrs. August Welke's son Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Next day the delegates, in red, white & blue Townsend hats and Townsend ribbons, scattered to see the city. They called on their Congressmen and visited with one another. Rollie Walters, 97-year-old Civil War veteran, who wore his uniform, bore tomahawk scars, and once worked in a false-tooth factory, hauled out his lower plate to show the folks. "Made these myself," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The Crusaders | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

While manufacturers and meat packers howled for OPA's scalp (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), OP A picked up its own tomahawk and hacked hard at the list of items under price control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Hatchet Work | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Happy Boyhood. As any reader of The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime might guess, H. T. Webster had a happy boyhood. He spent it in Tomahawk, Wis. (pop. 3,365) where his dad ran the drugstore. Tomahawk (the way Webster remembers it) was a little town afloat in a forest where deer and small game were plentiful, the lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Average Man | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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