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Word: guts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson has much tough cat gut to out-batter during the next three weeks. No one is particularly worried about Brown this afternoon, but Cornell this Saturday poses a bigger problem. The veteran-studded Cayugans boast national reputations in their top men and have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism...

Author: By Rubric J. Shortshot, | Title: Five Straight Victories Put Netmen Near Top | 4/28/1948 | See Source »

...stock. Although this service has since been stopped, the beer drinker has not been neglected, and the O.G. has all kinds; bock, stout, and a varity in Cambridge, porter in bottles. Porter, by the way, is a weak stout, and is as satisfying to the beer drinker as a gut course is to the gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The O.G.---Exotic Liqueurs, Beer of Every Description | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

Gadgets have helped: new machines for anesthetics; easily tilted operating tables; glareless, heatless, shadowless operating-room lights; new sutures, like those made of the rare metal tantalum, to replace cat gut* for certain operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Fools' Bravery. "You are not tough when you gut a gun in a man's face and take what he has worked hard for. It don't take guts to do that. Any fool can put a gun in his hand and do wrong. But it takes a man with guts to get a job and work for what he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: I Have Had My Fun | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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