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Word: laming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only change in the lineup of team A was that J. L. Combs Occ. replaced John Prior '29 at left end. Prior was given a day off to rest a lame muscle, but will probably be able to play in tomorrow's contest. Dudley Bell '28 was still at center and it is probable that he will be given the call over R. W. Turner '28 on Saturday, though the latter will no doubt see plenty of action in a relief role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN DRIVES ELEVEN IN ITS LAST SCRIMMAGE | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, one Mrs. Mary C. Bletcher, artist, stopped a mail wagon, climbed to the driver's seat, clutched the reins, demanded the driver's arrest for driving a lame horse. Traffic jammed for 45 minutes. Police veterinaries declared the horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Into the first volume Dr. McGuffey put monosyllabic fables about busy bees, lame dogs, silly geese, kind cows, cruel boys, inventing the formula of printing a dogmatic MORAL at the end of each lesson, rigidly adhered to throughout the series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tradition Eclipsed | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

Soon a pretty Tsarist girl, who has Americanized her lame into "Miss Catherine Bary" and became a designer, mounted the stage with a bunch of roses which she extended toward Speaker Kerensky. As he bent forward to accept them she struck him three times across the left cheek with her gloves, screamed in Russian: "By your order my fiance was shot in Russia! I do this to avenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Thrice-Slapped Cheek | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...then the French maid tripped by. The cub reporter's French was halt, lame and blind, but he could gesticulate. He detained the maid. He scribbled again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cub | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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