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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outdoor observation on the local scene also hits an all-year high in this season. For about a buck, or an H.A.A. coupon, you can drag the fortunate fe- male to Soldiers Field and watch baseball college style. Then in the last of the fifth, when the score is 32 to 7, you can leave, pick up a case of beer, and join the cheering thousands along the river banks who wonder "which crew is Harvard...

Author: By Erik Amfithcatrof, Edicard J. Coughlin, Michael J. Halberstam., Cynthia M. Reich, and Malcolm D. Rivkin, S | Title: Spring Tempers Activities, Fashions | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

Petersen & Co. now have four numbers, including one about a motorized cowboy ("Instead of prodding with his spurs, he mashes on the gas"). But Lyricist Medley is still especially fond of Saturday Night Drag because it has a moral: "This hot-rodder gets caught, catch it? So maybe kids listenin' to the record don't go out and race except at a track. Catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Real Hogbear | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...went up, 'If it goes, then-Drag it out, drag it out, drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Real Hogbear | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Real Hogbear | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Much of the credit for an enjoyable production of this difficult play must go to the perceptive direction of Eric Bentley, who never lets the action drag for a moment. Lester Polakov's set also was effective, combining the elegance of an claborate town house with the stark atmosphere of a Chamber of Inquisition...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: Right You Are | 3/28/1952 | See Source »

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