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Word: bumpings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massie did not even kill Kahahawai." But Prosecutor Kelley in his cross-examination was not able to change a jot or tittle of Lieutenant Massie's story. The officer told how he learned of his own actions : "Mrs. Fortescue said I stood there like a bump on a log. Later they put me in a chair. Jones. . . said I acted like a damn fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Horror, Rumor, Trigger | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours of pitiless, often nervously gay drama which should give a childless husband pause, possibly make him a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...mansions of filmdom are still haunted. Of "ghosties and ghoulies and a lang-leggity beasties that go bump "in the night" there is no surcease...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...second play, Hardy, burly left tackle, received a slight bump and Wood called for time out. The Harvard lineman was soon on his feet again and on the third down, Yale kicked, Parker's punt searing forty yards to White who was forced out on Harvard's 44-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD 0, YALE 3 | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

From this pitch of lyric arson, Cyprus' revolt inevitably calmed down as armed Britons rushed to Storr's aid. It took a troop of Royal Welch Fusiliers all night to bump 50 miles over awful roads from their encampment on Mount-Troodos. But soon after dawn their mud-spattered trucks snorted into Nicosia and the mob was cowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Storrs Snores | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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