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Word: wheelbarrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimants, the trial was as picturesque as an old explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L. Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated to be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Long Suit | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Possum In Elherton Ga. a hound named Buck incapacitated by a broke leg went hunting with Sheriff John Starke. Pushed in a wheelbarrow, he treed three possiums without once leaving his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...drove them back with more than 20 casualties. Later that night, though wounded, he repeated the performance. When he was finally ordered to withdraw his platoon, he did so in good order, but found his batman (orderly) had been left behind. He went back, fetched the orderly in a wheelbarrow, then passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tales of Heroism | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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