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Word: gyp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival meetings, fighting and good catfishing at Beaver Slough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jug Genius | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Gyp The Gypers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheating in Exams Discussed at Yale Students' Meeting | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

Attempting to wipe out cheating at the University an investigating organization of students has been started under the title of GTG, Gyp the Gypers, according to the News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheating in Exams Discussed at Yale Students' Meeting | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

...skating rink with a troupe of performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marine Circus | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...like Luciano, Prosecutor Dewey was no more interested in policy gambling than he had been in prostitution. But though he never expected to wipe out prostitution, he did announce that he might abolish policy in the only way it ever could be abolished-by showing betters what a "crooked gyp racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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