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Word: dinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hinky Dink loved people. Bums, tarts, gangsters, panhandlers, the inhabitants of the flophouses of Chicago's ill-famed First Ward-they were what Hinky Dink meant by people. Also they meant votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Decline of Hinky Dink | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Besides regular meets, one day each week will be spent by the colleges in Greater Boston on the Charles Basin, where they will have Varsity and Freshman races to determine the spring champion. Last fall's championship was won by a Harvard dink sailor, after a hotly-contested sail-off with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Sailing Season Opened by Yacht Club | 4/8/1942 | See Source »

With Sumner Simmons the only letter man returning to the forward position, the attackers were classed by Martin as the Weakest branch of the squad. Coming up from last year's Freshman team, however, Joe Healey and Dink Donahue may become the nucleus of a potentially threatening front line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balanced Team Viewed As Lacrosse Strength | 3/19/1942 | See Source »

...roles of the villainous favorites, but they will have a chance to get back at the "little man" for his centuries of oppression and triumph. They will be playing to efface the memory of the defeats of favorites. They will be fighting to send these eleven cocky underdog Dink Stovers back to New-Haven with their bulldog tails between their legs, and to prove for once and all that the favorites can be heroes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Goliath | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Higher & Farther | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

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