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Word: limps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right behind top scorer Jerry German, figured he would be wasting his time. He could remember failing off a chimney scaffolding at the age of 12 and seriously damaging one leg. Two and a half years in casts and pulleys permanently shortened the limb, plaguing. Norris with a serious limp...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...Town and Gown angle. With voters simmering over the possibility of "Tory Row" or Harvard domination, any real recognition of Plan E as a successful experiment became impossible. An aroused but befuddled electorate returned only five of the nine C.C.A. candidates to office and the City Council will limp along on a scant five-to-four majority for two more years. Until the liberal elements in Cambridge can pile up a record imposing enough to knife through class bigotry, they must resign themselves to a never ending battle with those politicians intent on turning the city government into a money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark of Greatness | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: In the Red | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

William B. Armstrong 2G, 26 year old Tufts College graduate, was stretched out on a table, his right hand limp over three open gas outlets and a cloth over his head, his uncle reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gas Provides Grad Suicide's Death Method | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

When he finishes swimming for the Crimson, a Boston doctor is going to see about removing his limp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

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