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Word: chug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chug. Late arrivals, coming from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Chicago convention of Midwestern Dance Masters told about and demonstrated two graceful midwestern dances, the "Sorority Sway" and "Sea Gull Waltz"; also a choppy one called the "Chug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...look forward to the time when there will be ... games with colleges in the United States." In the U. S., the arrival of September brought the breath of autumn, the chug of preseason punts. From the colleges issued long publicity screeds on the sport which supports all the other sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breath of Autumn | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield was splintered to bits, its bow bored in with leaking holes, its engine damaged. A final volley came from the rumrunner as it slipped away to hiding in the Canadian marsh. No. 1401 had to chug back to its dock for repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon made only a muffled chug in the night as his lead whizzed after pedestrians and into people's homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Omaha | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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