Word: dipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along after such speedy Columbia performers as Goverhali, or at best making weighty lunges in the direction of the ball carriers. A good part of the time our linesmen didn't have the slightest idea who the ball-carrier was: rather demoralizing. Knowing Dick Harlow's propensity for hipper-dipper deception, I shudder to think of the perplexed expressions that will cross the Tiger's brow a week from Saturday...
Texas is proud of its homebred sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...
Putting her trust in her honey-blonde hair, a little seashore hipper-dipper, and the eye-brimming distinction she imparts to the plainest photographic studies, 20-year-old Gloria Wood, star-minded daughter of Director Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle), petitioned in Los Angeles court for permission to discard her cinemagic name, call herself just K. T. Stevens...
Wham, Mr. Roosevelt; pow, Sears Roebuck; awk, big dipper; bop, summer rain...
...stars travel alone, like the sun. Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...