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Word: lopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mikkola's runners are going to start winning at all this season, this will be their best chance so far. Dartmouth hasn't the reserves that Holy Cross, Tufts, or Rhode Island flashed in their lop-sided wins over the Crimson in the past two meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Seek 1st Win | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

Television, always solid with sport fans, has proved that it can also score a hit with youngsters. NBC's "Howdy Doody," a lop-legged, mop-wigged puppet with a Snerdish grin, is the children's special delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...crying need for Berg. Stiff competition for first string positions on any athletic team gives a psychological boost to the entire squad plus giving much needed mid-competition rests for the starters. Berg uses the reserves he has. The big reason for the 59 to 32 lop-sided defeat that the Yearlings handed Nichols Junior College was that Berg boarded reserves during a low scoring first half to spring a fresh and superior quintet on the groggy Nichols five in the last two quarters...

Author: By Rubric J. Shortschett jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

Leverett's zone defense collapsed like the walls of Jericho in yesterday afternoon's basketball game at the Indoor Athletic Building, as Winthrop won a lop-sided battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Skin Bunnies In 51-25 Scoring Rout | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...cruncher came when a group of eight Senators offered an amendment to lop a cool $197 million off the bill. The amendment's chief promoter was Nevada's George W. Malone, a former prize fighter who had made a one-man survey of Europe in an airplane. He had found, he said, that in some cities U.S. relief supplies were being sold on the open market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Flailing & Cutting | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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