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Word: gravelled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to end a romance with Coffman, who was 39, a well-known attorney, married and the father of three children. When she spurned him, refused to elope with him to California, he stabbed her with an ice pick, choked her, threw her in a mudhole beside a gravel pit and left her there for dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Terrific | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Artillery shells filled with gravel which would spray muddy terrain in No Man's Land, make good footing for attacking infantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Heil Co. (President, Wisconsin's Governor Julius ["The Just"] Heil): tank trailers built rigidly enough so that no supporting frame is necessary to hold up their bellies; hydraulic dump trailer for ten-wheel gravel hauling units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...answered. "Gravel . . . taken about eight feet deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Irrepressible Sternutation | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Tenderfoot Scouts, Dan and his gang were running the Union pickets, ducking Minie balls in No Man's Land along the Licking River outside Covington, sneaking into Union trenches, sniping at a Rebel gang across the river with rocks, scrap iron, shotguns loaded with nails and gravel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boy's Man | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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