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Word: chock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after, the other suspect quit his job; then another chock was passed two days ago. Three officers arrested Knaus at his Mt. Vernon Street home yesterday afternoon. A Cambridge Trust teller identified him as the forger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Student Accused of Theft | 1/16/1951 | See Source »

Hilda Crane (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by Arthur Schwartz) is purely synthetic stuff, but it is chock-full of what a lot of people mean when they speak of a play. It dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...second period, the varsity added two more scores, but defense and midfields did not chock or press hard enough to stop a five goal Eli barrage. Paul Birdsall's third period goal tied the score, 6 to 6, but the Blue countered with three more in that period despite the alert goal tending of reserve Dick Thomas...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Lacrosse Team Edged, 12-9, By Highly Touted Bulldogs | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...plan was formed when a chock through the union catalogue of the Library of Congress--a file of 12,000,000 volumes in libraries throughout the nation--revealed that less than half the foreign publications were going into American libraries, while those that were arriving were frequently duplicated in many libraries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 Universities Map Storage Library; Metcalf Heads Planning Committee | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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