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Word: limb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpredictable but steadily improving Hoddermen tangle with the Elis Saturday in the second of the two game hockey series. It's difficult to go out on the limb and choose a winner for the Crimson this year, and even more so because the opponent this time is Elis Yale. Sophomores and Juniors have inscribed their class numerals all over Coach Murdock's squad so they should be up and coming by now, but these pesky Hoddermen have had the pleasant habit of playing right up to the limit of their capacities this season when they actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Face Strong Athletes Tomorrow Night | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...calm state of mind is a more satisfying form of relaxation than a double feature at the U. T. Supreme concentration can be reached only by cleansing the intestines and working up. To purify the mind one must shoo out any angry or bad thoughts like birds from a limb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Yogi Quits His Roommate to Maintain Serenity of Mind, Body Health | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...avowed strategy of Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin will be to work behind and through anti-Administration Democrats, keep his henchmen from getting out on the limb of an Opposition with a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Acts & Facts | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...recognize the Loyalists as the "friendly," legal Government of Spain; 3) they have not granted belligerent rights to Generalissimo Franco. Out weighing these objections, however, might easily be the consideration that a third attempt of the José Luis Diez to run for safety would again endanger British life & limb at Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Seven Against One | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Safety Foundation was organized last year by the automotive industry to check the appalling traffic toll of life, limb and property. Substituting a program of Engineering, Education and Enforcement for the desperate "- and sudden death" approach to highway-safety problems, the Foundation has thus far contributed $1,250,000 to some 16 safety organizations, educational and legislative movements, traffic engineering institutions and personnel-training bodies working for safer highways. By last week this investment had paid a big dividend. Lower by 7,400 than the preceding one-year period's was the traffic fatality score for the twelve months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety Dividend | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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