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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish fort waxed so warm that the two generals met face to face in deadly combat. He states that the Swede struck the Dutchman over the head with his sword and that, "the good Peter reeled with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat of honor with a crash which shook the surrounding hills, and might have wrecked his frame, had he not been received into a cushion softer than velvet, which some kindly cow had benevolently prepared for his reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Guam went an artificial leg, blueprints, electrical appliances, beaded handbag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Strange Cargo | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...filling the right inside position, Hank Murphy expects a draft call in the near future. Andy McCook is ineligible and Chick Lowe is still mending a broken leg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER SQUAD MISSES VETS | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...Yard squirrel came to the aid of three damsels in distress yesterday morning, when he ran up a laundry salesman's pant leg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chivalrous Squirrel Protects Maidens, Routs Salesman | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...year-old boy "extremely ill" with staphylococcus poisoning of the leg developed a kidney infection. Sulfathiazole did little good. Penicillin relieved his pain, cleared up the infection in a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mold for Infections | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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