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Word: beavering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif. ¶ According to Partridge's Dictionary oj Slang and TIME'S movie reviewer, peckerhead means a kind of beak-nosed eager beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...from Ohio's Denison University, and Ted immediately enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, where his father had studied. His first call was to the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, and within a year 26-year-old Pastor Adams had married Esther Josephine Jillson, a small, energetic girl from Beaver Dam, Wis. Three years later, he moved to Toledo, where the delegation from Richmond found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oldtime Religion | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Fullback Don Beaver prevented a sure Bruin goal in the second period by falling to his knees and deflecting the ball with his chest. He played his customary fast, aggressive game until he retired in the fourth period after being kicked in the face...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Soccer Team Registers Second Consecutive Shutout As Finkelstein Blanks Brown, 1-0 | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

...intact. But Munro is worried about the strength of his backfield, which so far this year has held down opposition scoring until the line could combine to tally. Tony Oberschall will fill in at halfback, should Denny Little, Stacy Holmes, or John Haddik tire. Captain Hugh Sargent and Don Beaver will start at fullback, although they both have injured legs and may not be able to go full tilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crippled Soccer Squad Will Face Lowell Institute | 11/9/1955 | See Source »

...explanation for the poor play of the usually steady Crimson defense lies in the fact that only one of the halfbacks and fullbacks, Stacey Holmes, was able to stay in all the way. Don Beaver, Hugh Sargent, John Hadik and Denny Little all started with injured legs, and not one of them could play the full 88 minutes...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Soccer Team Edges Tigers As Hodnett Paces 3-2 Win | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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