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Word: clicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disconcerted by this early setback, the puzzled Crimson five tried to get together, but was unable to click until the last few minutes of play to bring the score, at the end of the period to 17-11 in favor of the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN LOSE TO M.I.T. QUINTET, 30-27 | 1/9/1936 | See Source »

...into such a state that he takes a pistol to her. All this comes out of an unpublished novel by Wallace Smith and Erich von Stroheim who used to go around frightening virgins out of their wits on the silent screen. On the operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome brunette as Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1935 | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...faint click click, followed by loud applause, broke the tingly silence. Boyish-looking Welker Cochran strutted and grinned because with that last shot he had beaten grey-haired Willie Hoppe, 50-to-46, in 45 innings, regained the world's three-cushion billiard championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cochran's Carom | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, spinach) in more concentrated form than any plant or other animal tissue. The fore part of the pituitary, the adrenals and the ovaries also contain heavy Vitamin C concentrations. Concentration in the ovary reaches its height as the ovum ripens. That relation suggested to Drs. Click & Biskind that Vitamin C may be involved in the formation of sex hormones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chemotherapy | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs, kissing bugs, bumblebees and poisonous Central American centipedes. Once he added a flair by eating a black widow spider alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Coca-Cola Curator | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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