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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has a bit at least a foot long, and which weighs ten pounds or more, was sold by Lincoln to a cattle drover who visited his country store. When the customer asked about the axe. Lincoln replied, "I have never offered it for sale, but have no particular use for it anymore, and if anyone wanted it enough to give me one dollar and four bits for it they can have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abe Lincoln's Rail-Splitting Axe Is Shown in Widener Civil War Exhibit | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

...here to work and get a bit thinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Oneonta, N. Y., police arrested Clyde Proctor, 27, who confessed to having shaken a 15-month-old boy to death "because it bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Kingston, Pa., in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Nurse Georgia De Frane was applying a solution to the leg wounds of Miner John Lapore. 45, when he suddenly bit off the tip of her nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Tasting a bit of well-earned leisure in the Lowe's State loges last Saturday night, we had a brain-storm that carried across a couple of centuries, from the elite sectors of Manhattan to the 18th Century hot spots along the Left Bank. Greta Garbo, "La Dame aux Camelias", simplified for the American people into just plain "Camille...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

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