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Word: bunion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health was something like standing in shallow water and trying to feel a whale's pulse. There was room for all, and last week doctors were crowding alongside by the scores, prodding with their stethoscopes, waving hastily scribbled prescription blanks, and bitterly berating each other as quacks, bunion choppers, herb cooks and barbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Doctors' Dilemma | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...narrow passage that police maintained for them. Paris' Avenue des Champs Elysées was so jammed that it looked like Liberation Day. The first postwar revival of the Tour de France was under way. The 26-day-long, 2,900-mile bike race-a kind of Bunion Derby on wheels-is France's most avidly followed sporting event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby on Wheels | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

When the summer moon is full and the tide is high, the grunion run in Southern California. The grunion (rhymes with bunion) are small (6-in.), smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: When the Grunion Run | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...that most of the bad weather is over we have found just the man that could have helped out with the uniform of the day problem that we had a while back . . . William Dodd has seen plenty of service as an Aerographer (weather man to you) and his famous bunion ache test will always tell when lousy weather is coming. No wonder he has been limping ever since he has been here...

Author: By S. O. Merlvin parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

Wadding "Bull" Souder '41 and stilt-legged Doug Shepardson '41, Mutt and Jeff of Adams House, are not content to wave a flag on Patriots. Day like every other good American. They will display their national spirit by running the twenty-six mile annual bunion derby from Framingham to Boston in seven hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTS WILL RUN 26-MILE MARATHON THRU WELLESLEY | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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