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Word: actually (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actual scrimmaging time was kept to a minimum as the team began to taper off on contact work. A dummy scrimmage took up the better part of the afternoon with emphasis on split-second timing and final details of the new system. A short but vicious assault on the tackling dumies finished ceremonies...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Varsity Eases Up On Contact, Polishes Plays | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

There are still 12 groups in the College, but eight of these are primarily for discussion, or are otherwise inactive as far as actual campaigning goes. This leaves the active campaigning to four groups three on the left, one on the right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Politicians Set For Campaign | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

...awards, silverware donated anonymously, will be given annually to Crimson weightmen who better certain marks in actual competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Track Prizes Awarded... | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

...once attacked the conference's authority to deal with the problem at hand. "In order to make mutton stew," he stormed, "you must have mutton. In order to have a Foreign Ministers' conference, you must have Foreign Ministers." To this France's Robert Schuman, the only actual Foreign Minister in attendance, sharply retorted: "If you don't have powers to negotiate, why did you come here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Les Onusiens | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Almost as bad as the toothbrush of this parody, say Dentists Allen O. Gruebbel and J. M. Wisan, is the actual toothbrush used by the average U.S. family. Staff members of the American Dental Association, they examined 8,176 toothbrushes sent in* by 1,929 families all over the U.S., reported their findings last week in the A.D.A.'s Journal. Four out of five (80.7%) of the brushes were useless or actually "dangerous" (because they might irritate the gums); three-fourths of these had bent, broken or matted bristles; one-fourth were regarded as unsanitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Family Toothbrush | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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