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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambitious starlet rebels against this fate. Three years ago Barbara Bates did just that. A wartime pin-up favorite while on the Universal lot, Barbara moved over to Warners', where she got her first speaking parts; her dramatic aspirations thus encouraged, she balked at posing for any more leg-art pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cheesecake Charter | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Assault, 1946's Horse of the Year, and fourth highest money winner of all time ($668,020), failed in one comeback attempt last season and was retired to stud on Texas' 875,000-acre King Ranch. When he was found to be sterile, his ailing front leg was patched up and he was sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeback No. 2 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...days later his son, seeing so many horses, took to riding and broke his leg; the neighbors came again to offer their condolences, but the man replied: 'Who knows what is good luck or bad luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Put It in Your Hammock | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that his wife hit him with a milk bottle, smashed a tumbler on his head, knocked out one of his teeth with a plate, battered him with a shovel, yanked him downstairs by one leg, scratched him, pushed a lighted cigarette in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Animal Kingdom | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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