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Word: dashings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Occasionally, this legislative technician takes a day or two of rest and goes to Baltimore to see the races. Then the poker face of the Senator is metamorphosed into the Paul Revere of the Kaws; the drooping mustache stiffens, his eyes gleam, the dash of blood from the daughter of Chief White Plume swirls.... And, inevitably, the senior Senator from Kansas returns to his caucuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Quiet Leader | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...less fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until Jayne is disposed of in the care of Dr. Kao, "full of Christianity and antiseptics." This leaves Mr. Warner free but lonely to make his scheduled dash to Tun Huang, the second objective of his journey, where lie the caves of the Thousand Buddhas. The aspect of these ancient gods fills Mr. Werner with poetic reverence. However, "obviously, some specimens of these paintings must be secured for study at home, and, more important still, for safekeeping against further...

Author: By Cabl SCHUSTER ., | Title: Two of the Earth's Four Corners | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Hamlen sagged the Tech cage on a rebound shot after Chase's long dash down the ice. The Crimson forward found the Engineer's net shortly after when he took a pass from Chase and passed Richards with an angle snot. Howard had carried the rubber down the rink. With only a minute to play Ellison and Crendall collided and the tech defense man was forced to take time before continuing play. The following is the summary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAPTURES INITIAL ICE TILT | 12/11/1926 | See Source »

...veterans and new men are working in the old baseball cage under the tutelage of Head Coach Farrell and his assistants, Mikkola and Donovan. Those who have won their major H and are out again this year are: A. H. Miller '27 and C. G. Lundell '27, both dash men; J. S. Ballantyne '27, a hurdler, A. H. O'Neil '28, a half-miler, Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, a miler; Donald Quirk '28, a broad jumper; C. A. Pratt '28, a shot-putter; and F. A. Clark '28 and B. G. Burbank '28, two pole-vaulters. Football players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL STARTS TRACK MEN AT INFORMAL INDOOR WORK | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

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