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Word: gunning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...school of biff-plop-ratatat-tat cartooning was coming up fast. Today even spry old Foxy would be hard put to it to dodge the machine gun slugs and interplanetary rockets that whiz through the "comic" strips of the Thirties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grandpa's Pa | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...tuberculous, 30-year-old nurse named Margaret Sanger began publishing singlehanded a feminist paper called the Woman Rebel. Six months later she began raising money for a pamphlet called Family Limitation, the opening gun in her campaign to spread the gospel of Birth Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanger Saga | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...latest issue of the March of Time, which opens at the University tomorrow, is a comprehensive and intelligent piece of reporting. Although the audience expects to see nothing but the underground forts which Minister of War Andre Maginot began in 1928, exclusive interior shots--of mess halls, shower rooms, gun turrets and lookout posts--form less than half the picture, for the title refers to the whole military organization of a peace-time democracy. The Government's solution of how to make a people militarized but not militaristic is well shown with pictures of the drab uniforms and hard work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

HARLAN, Ky (UP)--Three men, one an election official, were killed late today in a gun battle allegedly over possession of a ballot box being carried to the country seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Dead in Kentucky | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

Worried well-wishers heard that one member of the Stuart clan was at a country dance when rivals appeared, got his gun and danced the rest of the night without turning his back on the crowd. They believed Jesse to be in imminent danger. But they principally feared the pugnacious Stuart inheritance, which may wreck the career of one of the most promising young U. S. poets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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