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Word: grimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim, ill-nourished Freshmen grabbed the cherished cane from three of their four opponents in the final title event, but "the strong arms" of a Sophomore named O'Connor "wrenched the wood" from his enemy, the sobered Princetonian reported, and saved his class from the ignominious disaster of defeat...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Tiger Revives Internecine Cane Feuds, Battles Over Dink-Wearing | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...Walls of Mokotow. The front window of Mikolajczyk's four-room apartment opened on the grim red walls of Warsaw's Mokotow Prison. Behind these walls in recent weeks, Poland's Soviet-style secret cops had grilled Mikolajczyk's party lieutenants in relays. Lately, "confessions" had been bringing Mikolajczyk's own arrest closer. He had said many times: "I will never leave the country." But lately he had also been saying more & more often: "I will be arrested. And when I am, they will do to me what they did to Nikola Petkoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Without Bloodshed? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...grim field, the university is pioneering almost alone. Memorial has the nation's only hospital ward for children with cancer. With only 17 beds, the ward has long waiting lists. And each month some 290 treatments are given to young cancer patients in the hospital's crowded clinic. Memorial's doctors admit that children's cancers are among the most baffling (and most tragic) of all, and that "the mortality rate ... is extremely high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer University | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...will be grim," Lamar said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Plays Potent Terrier Pups Today | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

...Stand by Your Posts." One enterprising reporter discovered why. In a grim moment of Chinese history, Peiping's staid Municipal Council had had a grimly amusing idea: a whole battalion of potential

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Column | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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