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Word: humps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred Allen radio program in which he and Program Guest Jack Haley reminisced about a little troupers' hotel in Philadelphia. Mused Haley: "My room was so small, when anyone opened the door, the doorknob got in bed with me." Allen: "My room was so small the mice were hump-backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Yesterday the team went over the final hump as far as hard practices are concerned. From now on there will be a gradual tapering off process as the Crimson gridmen put on the finishing preparation touches for their objective game of the year...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Harlow Adds Final Touches; Yesterday's Practice in Cage | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Billie Holiday is a roly-poly young colored woman with a hump in her voice. Dance-hall crowds have heard her with Count Basie's Orchestra, radio audiences with Artie Shaw. She does not care enough about her figure to watch her diet, but she loves to sing. She also likes to listen to records of her singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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