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Word: jaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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McLarnin's face with his right hand. In the fifth round the crowed booed McLarnin for hitting low. In the ninth McLarnin caught Ross off balance with a right to the chin and knocked him down. Just before the bell, Ross floored McLarnin with a left to the jaw. After the 15th, at the end of a close, clever, almost even fight, McLarnin trotted to his corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ross v. McLarnin | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Brussels papers raged: "Odious lie! German propaganda!" At the Belgian Embassy in London First Secretary H. Borel de Bitche declared: "If that colonel will come here, I will give him a punch on the jaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Death of Albert (Cont'd) | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Ramapithecus had a V-shaped upper jaw more similar to human form than to the U-shaped jaws of modern gorillas, orangs, chimpanzees. Sugrivapithecus had a well-developed chin like that of primitive man. Both had close-set, almost human teeth, lacking the formidable canine tusks of the great apes of today. The third genus was more like extinct apes previously discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Church to meddle in politics." He promised that if Germany wins the plebiscite it will modernize the Saar's old mines, sink new ones and find new markets. Afterwards leaders of the Saar German Front promised him 92% of the vote (about 500,000). Setting her square jaw squarer, 52-year-old Sarah Wambaugh last week set out for her new job determined to hold both France and Germany at arm's length while Saar residents choose their own destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Saar Umpires | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last distance marker. Distance: 55 ft. 4 in.-some 23 in. beyond the world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relays | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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