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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy of tariff-making by the President and State Department would mean a new and vast trade war. Opposed to the bill, Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.) insisted that all trade agreements should have the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Only disturbance occurred when a chair leg collapsed, dumped surprised Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...valet, a collection of pipes, a golf score in the 80s, an Oscar, the authorship of three nationally popular songs, a guitar, saxophone and two pianos, a set of stooges including two U. S. C. football players, a kiss from Bette Davis, a crown from Ed Sullivan, a broken leg, 80 chickens, three turkeys, three ducks, three geese, six canaries and a parrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Cutler will enter the 220 and 440, in addition to swimming a leg in the 400-yard relay. The other three members of that foursome will be Jim Curwen. Lonnie Stowell, Frannie Powers, and Art Bosworth. Curwen is also entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Sextet Will Try for Title In Intercollegiates | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: For Finland | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Teaming behind the blue line will be Captain Coleman and Sherm Gray, who probably will have to spend much of the tilt on the sidelines because of a game leg, while Greeley Summers, George Dreher, and Emmet Whitlock are alternate defensemen...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Hockey Team Needs Only Few Breaks To Knock Props From Under Bulldogs | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

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