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Word: beefing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late hour last night it was learned that five Freshmen from Hollis Hall had gone to Stillman and many others were in the throes of disconcerting regurgitation due to the strange properties of the beef steak served for lunch. It was not deemed advisable to enquire at the other dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1937 Regurgitates | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...year since he clipped a coleta in his hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped from a slaughter house herd and was charging back & forth ankle deep in cabbages, beets, potatoes and the wreckage of vegetable stalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Torero Tension | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...sidewalks. He was alone running down Commonwealth Avenue. He turned into Exeter Street as lightly as though he were trotting to catch a street car, whisked across the finish where he was timed at 2 hr., 32 min., 53 sec. He was sitting down to a plate of beef stew in the Boston A. A. clubhouse when the other runners arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rata Auki! | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...price of a "Georgian Special." Net profit, $4.00. A little systematic study and execution of the plan, say a student a day, would have brought in the hard-driving instructor a tidy revenue of almost $2.50 a week, depending on how long the wife could make the cold roast beef last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

...have requested that his captors, whoever they may be, feed him on nothing but red meat. And it seems to us that the fine Italian hand of an Eli Machiavelli becomes visible. We never yet heard of a Yale bulldog fed for any appreciable length of time on raw beef that needed any sympathy. The Yales may have been able with impunity to kidnap a poor defenceless stuffed Ibis, but we shall be surprised if in a short time Handsome Dan, II doesn't show up with the seat of some Harvard pants in his teeth. --New York Herald Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

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