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Word: kink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects, the matter of the course could be dissected and outside specialists brought in to handle the severed members. But suppose these eminent business practitioners from whom you asked a talk on Revelations insisted on filling their allotted time with a discourse on Genesis? Then here was simply another kink to be straightened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAY TRACES RAPID RISE OF SCHOOL TO PRESENT POSITION | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

...revealed the fact, however, that the cause of the new phenomenon was to be sought for below the realm of the super natural. In fact the baskets had been stopped the night before by the two young scientists who are gathering data on them. A small kink in the wire near the nail from which it hangs had been enough to halt the gyrations of the delicately balanced baskets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visitors to Peabody Museum Yesterday Disappointed--Baskets From Borneo Had Ceased Their Revolutions | 5/4/1926 | See Source »

...supper, openly rebelled. It was because of the child, Addie, of course, not Mrs. Fippany's health at all. And Mr. Fippany surrendered by telling Breaksteel, the beagle puppy, they would give up trading tin pans and cups and gaudy Bibles and lithographs and pain-killers and perfumed hair-kink removers for chickens and eggs and milk and things, and go to the biggest town there was?New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fippanys* | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...plot has many a kink and these who add most to the humor of the lines are Miss Hitz as Susie, Bernard Nedell, the "wise" crook. Houston Richards, who has no small gifts as a cone and John Collier, the harassed husband

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

...line-up of the University team follows: 1, K. O. Mott-Smith '22, Captain; 2, H. H. Jackson '22; 3, A. Kink '24; and 4, E. A. Sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Third in Chess Tourney | 1/3/1921 | See Source »

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