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Word: limbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun, it was too late to repair the damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Failure of an Offensive | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Crimson guard is the first Harvard All-American since the days of Barry Wood, back in 1931, Numerous team selections of fans, printed in the Boston American, confirmed the opinion of the experts, all but a few selecting Peabody, and one reader went out on a limb to name five Crimson players, Peabody, Vern Miller, Tom Gardiner, Dick Pfister, and Don McNicol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-American Peabody Wins Two New Honors | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...took both the Dartmouth and Navy games before Stanley Woodward, another famous grid "expert" went out on a limb and predicted Harvard to best Princeton...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

...person shall be held to answer for [an] infamous crime, unless on . . . indictment of a Grand Jury . . . nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall [he] be compelled . . . to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERTY: 150-Year-Old Rights | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Limbitations. In an Oregon forest, a legless woman went out hunting in a wheel chair, bagged a deer with one shot. In Cincinnati, a speaker at the convention of the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America backed off the platform and broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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