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Word: clickings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whoosh! | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...resounding click of the camera and the somewhat more violent flash of the bulb are rapidly becoming familiar disturbances to the formerly pacific routine of daily existence. Basing its policy on the age-old concept that the little things in life are after all the most important, Life Magazine has commenced to invade the home, the theatre, the dance floor, and many less agreeable places where these little things may be seen to crop out. Feeling that the nightly American practice of undressing was a valuable and instructive field to attack, Life presented its million and a half readers with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIFE OF THE PARTY | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

Crimson Coach Wes Fesler hopes that his team will take the Brown five by a substantial score, but if the Brown attack, featuring a series of long, wild passes, should happen to click, an exciting game will result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sextet Faces Yale in Second Contest, Basketball Team Encounters Brown Quintet in Busy Sports Weekend | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

...Yardling five in a stiff, hard fought game, and as the ball travelled up and down the floor the first year men scored regularly against Bill Gray's outfit. But in the long run the more experienced team was rolling up a bigger and bigger margin as plays would click, passes connect beautifully. It was just one part in the final drive of the best basketball team Harvard has over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...bushes, snapped him twice with a telephoto lens, as he was putting and as he was marching down the fairway, niblick in hand. After taking the pictures, Photographer Wallace handed the film to his brother, popped a dummy magazine into his camera. Golfer Montague, who had heard the shutter click, ran over to Photographer Wallace, took the camera away, removed the dummy magazine, destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mysterious Montague | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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