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Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last the cornerstone on which the edifice hung was about to be placed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

Scouting rumors that he would resign, friends of Ambassador Bullitt saw him safely to a Philadelphia hospital where he was to have treatment for an infection of the jaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Great Day; Grey Dusk | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years. He was 25 to 40 years old when he perished, had a short face and long skull like the Cro-Magnon man of Europe's Stone Age, jutting brow ridges, a wide jaw and wide skull base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in the Chicago Stadium. Instead of treating the affair as a friendly exhibition, Champion Baer insulted King Levinsky when they met before the fight, affronted him further by insisting on dangerous 6 oz. fighting gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King's Collapse | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...third period of a Manhattan game between the New York Americans and the Boston Bruins last week, the Americans' brash young forward Lloyd ("Dede") Klein collided with the Bruins' 200-lb. center, Nelson Stewart. Annoyed, Klein whacked Stewart with his stick. Furious, Stewart punched Klein's jaw. One of the referees separated the fighters, ordered them off the ice. When the referee turned his back, Stewart raised his stick with both hands and brought it down on Klein's head. The stick broke. Klein was carried off to the dressing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough Stuff | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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