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Word: choppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future. Even with Bocchiccio picking up the tab, Walcott is one of the skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenger | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Contemporary Russian inventors were not idle. Last week, Tass reported that they had developed a new artificial arm with which disabled veterans could "write, saw and chop wood, strike matches, and operate a machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Age of Rediscovery | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

When the match began, Phipps spun his serve along the cowshed roof. The ball (about as hard as a baseball with a tennis-ball covering) skidded into a corner and Pierre scooped it out with an underhand chop stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Master | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Yale, and ate several meals there. We enjoyed rare roast beef that was tender and tasty, milk in individual paper bottles, and choice of dessert, including crackers and fancy cheese. This, I learned, is the usual quality of the fare of Yale men who even see an occasional lamb chop. The amazing thing is they pay only $10 per week for this delicious repast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Food Fancier | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

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