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Word: elbowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Philadelphia; Robert S. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut; Melvin B. Black, Roxbury; Robert H. Clapp, Watertown; William N. Dale, Clinton, New York; Otto W. Fick. Jr.; Oak Park, Illinois; George M. Firestone, St. Paul, Minnesota: Arnold S. Gale, Brookline; Tudor Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine; Leonard C. Holvik, Elbow Lake, Minnesota; Garfield H. Horn, Elk Grove, California; Ward MacL. Hussey, Chicago, Illinois; George S. Kurland, Dorchester; Paul Olum. Binghampton, New York; Robert L. Peesok. Peninsula, Ohio; Isadore N. Rosenberg Boston; Stanley J. Sigel, Portland, Maine; Charles G. Swain Wolaston; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr., Saem: and Harry E. White, Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 AWARDED DETUR PRIZE BOOKS FOR TOP SCHOLARSHIP | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...would be highly desirable if the University would team up with the City of Cambridge, and by the judicious use of men, long-handled ice-picks, elbow grease, engineering science, and a humane desire to make this fair world a better place to live in, remove all vestiges of ice and packed snow from the sidewalks and paths of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TIMES A'WASTIN'" | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

...department and enter the teacher's apartment on the heels of the maid. Sooner or later the victim, too, will go into his room to get his mail, and, if the student's disguise is a good one, will not notice anything until the intruder grips him by the elbow and takes one of the three types of study-cards out of his overalls. On the whole guile is to be recommended rather than brute patience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANTA CLAUS IN UNIVERSITY C | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...Since Premier Bayar's elevation, Turkish politicians have been anxiously watching him for any indication of what new policies the Dictator picked him to carry out in the Parliament which sat last week. About all they have seen the Premier do is to stand respectfully at the elbow of the Father of the Turks during a recent army and air force display, chiefly remarkable for its 2,000 female Janizaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: President & Pacifiers | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...plant, Carrier Corp. can triple its present output and still have plenty of elbow room. And if Salesman Willis Carrier is able to get his old plants off his hands-Carrier stockholders were urged to write in if they knew of anyone who was in the market-Carrier common stock may earn substantially more than the $1.43 per share earned for the first three quarters this year. Currently Carrier stock is selling at $29 a share, down from the year's high of $67.50. But Willis Carrier had more immediate things than the stockmarket to think of. First thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carrier to Syracuse | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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