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Word: hoists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then at the IC4A games recently, he took a second to the renowned Rich Moreum of New Hampshire a one-man field events team, bettering his own old hoist by 1-2 inch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smashed Pole Vault Record Due for Further Beating at Hands of Ford and 12 New Poles | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

With the new poles, Crimson vaulters will be able to grasp the weapon further up, and will thus get more distance and hoist out of the bamboo rods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smashed Pole Vault Record Due for Further Beating at Hands of Ford and 12 New Poles | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

...Japanese had tried on numerous occasions to wipe out the guerrillas," Gardener revealed, "but no matter how many times they were beaten, the Chinese always came back. They seriously upset mining on numerous occasions by sneaking up to the mines, overpowering the guards, and smashing the pump and hoist machinery. Japanese miners were killed wholesale underground when the mines filled with water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUERRILLA ACTION MAY SLOW FURTHER JAPANESE CONQUEST | 2/25/1942 | See Source »

...clock, in the stone-paved Quincy Street courtyard facing the Varsity Club, the students of the oldest and most blase of America's universities will gather to steal a Big Green leaf out of Dartmouth's book by staging a mass rally in an effort to hoist the team from Hanover on its own enthusiastic petard...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: UNDERGRADUATES RALLY AS INDIANS INVADE | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

Actually the Southern mines retained more than 80% of their cost advantage on labor, for day labor in the coal mines is confined to maintenance men, hoist operators and other special employes. The men who do the actual coal mining are paid by the ton instead of the day and in Southern mines still get 15? a ton less than in Northern mines-a differential that was not in dispute. The 40? differential was estimated to save only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blenheim for John L. Lewis | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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