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Word: drinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little boy had injured his arm by sticking it up the chute of the school's soft drink machine in search of a reluctant bottle. The school authorities ordered the machine removed. That seemed to the students about as sensible as taking away a diving board because somebody had dived into the pool when it was empty. And to deprive kids of Cokes in Orange County, Tex. was like taking milk away from babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walkout in Texas | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...India," said Kipling cynically, "is a place beyond all other where one must not take things too seriously-the midday sun always excepted. Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much . . . drink . . . Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlighted Places | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...spots, the play is remarkably dull as a whole. The trouble is that Playwright Paul knows what he is writing about but not how to write about it. His touch is coarse, his method tedious, his tone didactic; the play becomes a kind of Pilgrim's Progress of drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...steeplechase water jump that produces five minutes of frustration-comedy as screamingly funny as a good Chaplin sequence. Horse after horse plops its resplendent rider into the drink, then surfaces with a burst of triumphant horse-laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leni's Olympics | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...otherwise the big derby was its usual noisy self. An insurgent from M.I.T., Peter Dayton by name, crashed into the line of march and was soon heaved into the drink by several hundred howling women in graduation garb and beanies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waban Hoops Doom Busy Schooler to Early Wedlock | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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