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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Divine Guidance. In Seattle, The Stethoscope, a naval-hospital newspaper, offered a prize to anyone at the hospital who could identify Betty Grable's legs from a selection of leg-art photos. The winner: the chaplain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Patients with arm or leg injuries had only an even chance to live, since it took so long to reach a hospital. ("One boy, with legs gangrenous to the knees, walked 20 miles through snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. X and Dr. Nikolic | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Shank of the Evening. In Kankakee, Ill., Police Chief Nelson put Sergeant Bert Luckey on regular duty so that he positively could not attend the annual policeman's ball. Last year the Sergeant's wooden leg broke under the pressure, spilled ball bearings and dancers all over the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

With his headquarters on Corregidor, he continued to cross to Bataan to encourage his troops. He was ravaged by beriberi, emaciated. He could barely use his right leg; he dragged himself along with a cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...barbershop, presided over by a boyish-looking blond with marcelled hair, was a lush display of Hollywood leg art, clipped from U.S. magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Nazis in the U.S. . . . | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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