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Word: crowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crown to Rump...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fetus Breathed Before Dying, Pathologist Tells Edelin Jury | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

Homans showed that a table of "crown to heel," or head to toe, fetal measurement that the pathologist had testified was to be found in a certain scientific paper could not in fact be found there. That paper did include a correlation of "crown to rump" fetal measurement with certain fetal ages...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fetus Breathed Before Dying, Pathologist Tells Edelin Jury | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...triumphs crown the basketball and track...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A Christmas Cavil | 12/20/1974 | See Source »

...riches, Hunt, a tall figure with a crown of wispy white hair and heavy-lidded, milky blue eyes, was widely known as a slow man with a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Just a Country Boy | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...promising start as a middleweight in the '20s, Braddock's luck faltered. During the Depression he worked on the docks and went on the dole, but he kept on fighting -and losing. After a surprise victory in 1934, he disposed of three strong contenders for the heavyweight crown and earned a shot at Champion Max Baer's title. Braddock skillfully outboxed Baer for 15 rounds, winning a unanimous decision and Damon Runyon's sobriquet "the Cinderella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1974 | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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