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Word: bites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ajax and Achilles turned out to be meat by no means. With spectacular coordination they kept each other smoked while driving in for bite after bite. They hurt the Spee, and badly. Some of her guns were silenced-one 5.9 turret tilted. Captain Langsdorff ordered his vessel to the nearest haven, Montevideo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...five sophomores who are as follows: Richard M. Jackson, Franklin King, Jr., William T. Peabody, Harvey C. Taylor, and will then bite their nails through a long introductory talk describing the difficulty of determining the winning Sophomore in such a close competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Sophomore Managers Will Be Appointed Directly After Game Today | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...never saw such a funny bunch of boys in my life," said "Jim". "They're up at 6:30 o'clock, at work a little after 7, stop for a bite when someone gets hungry after noon, and then they're at it again all afternoon and to bed almost as soon as it's dark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Build Hut In Preparing for Winter Activities | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize a speechless paralytic, a savage child, a cancer victim crazy with pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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