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Word: elbowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should cover 100 square miles to give elbow room to its two million inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Airport in Middle | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...freak, the crowds at Muirfield followed him throughout the tournament. His swing is jerky, the face of his club twists sharply at the moment of impact. He lunges at the ball, moves his feet. When he putts, his forearms are parallel to the ground, the shaft perpendicular, the left elbow pointing to the hole, the hands within breathing distance of his stomach in a posture as of prayer. Few tyros try to copy his style, though perhaps it will suit at his new club in Aqua Caliente ("Hot Water"), Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Open | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...last high-backed chair. Attention is fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Matters | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...efficiency and organization, a President and his staff need elbow room. Last week bids were received for enlarging the interior of the Stanford-White-designed executive offices. Low bidder ($15,225) was the N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago. The basement will be renovated as office and storage space. The West embankment will be cut away to the street to permit basement windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Workingmen | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...General rose. A braided doorman solicitously took his elbow. "Blackjack" Pershing seemed about to faint. The commander of the A. E. F. brusquely brushed the doorman aside and stalked to the elevator, cock-robin once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of Herrick | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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