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Word: jujitsu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that he could still lift a 500-lb. weight or take care of a burglar by jujitsu. Some times he sparred a few rounds with Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr. But since then, U.S. audiences have had few opportunities to watch his flying fingers and applaud his romantic 19th-Century music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pupil of Liszt | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

April. In Chicago, experimenting with some new jujitsu holds, Joseph Dwyer and Harry Stevens simultaneously broke each other's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

VERBOTEN ERLAUBT Yachting Volleyball Rowing Football Cycling Basketball Skiing Hockey Trapeze work Tennis Weight lifting Bowling Field athletics Skating Mountain climbing Fishing Boxing Elementary calisthenics Jujitsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Metes & Bounds | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Revolution by Decree | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Twist. In Chicago, experimenting with some new jujitsu holds, Joseph Dwyer and Harry Stevens simultaneously broke each other's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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