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Word: drags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Tittman, starting his first game, caught the Purple infield flatfooted in the first of the second with a drag bunt along the foul line. Craig Woodruff, handcuffed by Bruninghaus in their preceding meeting, then stepped into one of the cocky Crusader's fast shoots and propelled it out into center for a triple. A moment later he scored on Captain Maguire's infield roller to give the Crimson its first two runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY CROSS IN 8-3 WIN OVER VARSITY NINE ON SATURDAY | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...drag out the month-old story of George V's Jubilee, nearly every illustrated magazine in England continued to blaze last week with reproductions of the King's possessions. There were pictures of his horses, racing, hunters and parade, his Clumber hunting spaniels, his late mother's Labradors, his wife's collection of old Chinese jade, his Empire stamp collection, his great houses of Sandringham, Buckingham, Balmoral and, 500 years older than the others, Windsor. To the King's treasures at Windsor, the Connoisseur gave nearly an entire issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: King's Treasures | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...changed the economy of the grain-growing West. But today the cotton crop is harvested exactly as it was when Eli Whitney invented his cotton gin-by Negroes moving between the rows of plants, plucking the fluffy bolls by hand and stuffing them into huge bags which the pickers drag behind them. An average picker bags about 100 Ib. of seed cotton a day, for which, if he is hired by a plantation owner, he may, in good times, receive as much as a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cotton-Picker | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Cadet MacArthur did graduate first in his class but why drag in Summerall who graduated No. 20 and Pershing who graduated No. 30 in his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...firmament of Hollywood, gives an excellent, performance as an easy-going, devil-may-care sort of girl who knows that in the long run the cards are stacked in her direction. In her acting she reveals a sense of humor that should take her far. The picture does not drag, although it is a long show and is very ably directed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE ORPHEUM | 3/19/1935 | See Source »

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