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Word: laming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University diamond forces are still without the services of R.C. Sullivan '28, who has been absent from the lineup due to a lame shoulder. As a result, Coach F.G. Mitchell will send the same team into action as the one which smothered Trinity Wednesday. J.N. Barbee '28 will receive the call for pitching duty in today's contest in what will be the first appearance of the veteran Crimson moundsman on the home diamond. Barbee has seen service twice this season, in the games with Virginia and Georgetown during the spring trip. Harvard won these two contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HITTERS ENGAGE SYRACUSE | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

Page 9-ist col. of your issue of Mar. 12-you speak of Ex-Senator Oscar W. Underwood as being a "lame duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

OKLAHOMANS RESENT CALLING ROBERT L OWEN A LAME DUCK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION BUT CHOSE TO RETIRE SENATOR OWEN IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHOR OF AMERICAS MOST CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU ARE RIGHT HE WOULD BE TOWERING AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OR AS PRESIDENT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...finished, instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris's resolution beyond recognition. Then, as usual, it voted down the whole proposal. "Lame duckery" will continue. Representative La Guardia of New York promptly filed a bill to abolish "lame duckery" without amending the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Seventieth | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Hungarian Government's lame explanation was that the guns were con- signed to Poland. The Italian Government, bolder, sought to forestall possible investigation by the League of Nations, postulating through the Fascist press the "unalterable opposition'' of Signer Benito Mussolini to such procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: B for Balkans | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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