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Word: frogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncomfortably entwined about the body ? it is truncated under the arms. As a Coney Island shop-owner who falls asleep and dreams of Fairyland, he wanders into enchanted woods. "I love the woods," he continually explains. There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog. He tells a story of a carrier pigeon whose wings were injured but who still managed to reach his destination. "Gee," he exclaims, "were his feet sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...tetrapodisis in the U. S., he decided, was because in cities and modern homes the movements of young children are very much restricted. In his opinion the U. S. child has no room to trot like a little bear between the time when it crawls like a big frog and the time when it walks like a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tetrapodisis | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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