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Word: limbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiff, heartbroken, seek among frozen corpses for those who were dear to them. In an intensifying series, the shots show: a dead mother and baby, so frozen that the child's head stands rigid in the air above her bosom; an old woman, crying and stupefied, trying to limber the upthrust frozen arm of a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...soon as the weather permits, the House oarsmen will rack out the shells and limber up. The season used to begin the first week after the spring vacation and this year will probably begin around April 5. Baseball and softball should start a few days later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVERETT HOUSE LEADER AS SPRING SPORTS NEAR | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

Although he has been greeted only by batterymen and a few stray others who have dropped down to Briggs Cage to limber up, Varsity baseball Coach Floyd Stahl has begun the task of shaping up a nine for the approaching season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SQUAD TAKES SHAPE IN DAILY SESSIONS | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. One day he filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Goldberg at Mr. Morgan's | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...constabulary rounded up Moro outlaws who seized on the panic for raids on unprotected villages. But against the real juramentados there was nothing to do except keep trigger fingers limber. No one could say which Moro might suddenly run amuck, or where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Terror in Jolo | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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