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Word: dragging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be with the missing Memorial Hall bell clapper now if a member of the Yard Police hadn't surprised the group of roaring rowdies, fresh from the muskrat slaughter in the Yard. But their efforts to roll him, drag him, scrape him away ended ignominiously in the safety of a speeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCUS THROWER SPENDS UNEASY NIGHT IN STREET | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

...company on the wrecked plane in taking photographs,* and minimizing unfavorable photographs and reference in stories of the crash. By giving all the information possible immediately, of the incident, the story will be covered in one issue and the papers will have nothing to write about to drag it along for several days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Public Relations | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...falls short of the brilliance intended by its makers. The reason for this lapse is rather difficult to find, for the picture suffers from no definitely low spots. Perhaps it can best be laid at the door of its more than average length, which results in occasional drag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE MAJESTIC | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

...Rogers is not a Princess of Russia but only a Mistress of a Good Heart, which she uses frequently. Their romance rises and declines in a New York tenement until it becomes so complicated that the Police Department has to be whipped into effective action. While the drab parts drag, the humorous situations provoke smiles if not a chuckle...

Author: By A. A. B. jr., | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 2/15/1935 | See Source »

Terms of the Knoxville deal could be readily extended. Certainly Bond & Share had no desire to have the value of its Knoxville properties extinguished by lopsided municipal competition. But the 13 coal and ice companies, with the moral support of many a thoughtful Tennessee Valley businessman, were determined to drag Mr. Lilienthal, dead flower in hand, before a high court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dead Flower | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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