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Word: headstand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Richard Allen Knight, 49, café socialite, once brilliant lawyer (disbarred); in Manhattan. Great-headed Texan Knight, whose early success (1928 earnings: $80,000) began boring him into his cups, embarked on a series of well-publicized didos (most famed: a headstand at the 1939 opening of the Metropolitan Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...third casualty of the newly instituted conditioning classes was hung up yesterday afternoon when Charles W. Joyce '44 of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Dunster House sprained his back while trying to execute a "headstand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hapless Sophomore Sprains Back Executing Headstand | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

...America what is needed for the war effort. . . ." ∙ ∙ Parachutist Max Schmeling will referee a prize fight in Brussels next week. He's still on "recovery leave." ∙ ∙ When veteran Speed Flyer Laura Ingalls landed at Albuquerque her landing gear crumpled and the ship did a headstand. Isolationist Laura, uninjured, promptly blamed her defective landing gear on "this system of priorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: War & Defense | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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