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Word: lopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams' third victory of the week came at the expense of Dudley last Wednesday with the scoreboard reading 9 to 2. Mort Mendselsohn was the winning pitcher in this lop-sided baseball contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams' 4--Win Record Broken By Lowell Tie | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...bore? What if mother-love, the Cruelty of Man, the Landlord of the Forest, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century melodrama are overdone until they become a lush mush? These are Disney's incorrigible faults, but they are well worth suffering or sleeping through for a glimpse of a lop-cared bunny yelling like hell as he slides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

...there were more heads to the hydra than any Hercules could lop: > Strikes, though still infinitesimal, were up 85% from the month before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Action, Action, Action! | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Last week, on the brush-covered, gully-cut hills of Camp Bullis, 20 miles northwest of San Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Every Man an Engineer | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...League for the fourth consecutive year, the Bulldogs went ahead to win ten out of 11 events in the Eastern Intercollegiates held last weekend at New Haven. The senior-studded Eli squad also defeated Michigan, Big Ten champion and possibly the second best team in the country, by the lop-sided score of 59 to 16 last month at Ann Arbor...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: HARVARD PLAYS HOST TO TOPFLIGHT COLLEGE MERMEN IN NATIONAL MEET TODAY, TOMORROW | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

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