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Word: moter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...clothesline for the course flags. From a highly un authoritative source, I learned that Mr. Sopwith plotted his day's run from (1) a pair of basketball bloomers that one of the sailors insisted on wearing for his setting up exercises, (2) a bandana handkerchief used for wiping the moter, (3) a Navajo blanket, and (4) a pair of purple-striped shorts...

Author: By Henry Mclemore, UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT | Title: Purple Shorts Say "Go South" to "Endeavour" Seeking Course Flag | 9/26/1934 | See Source »

...then went world-touring with him. While at Oxford, Eddie Eagan met the Prince of Wales. "The Prince soon put me at my ease. He asked many questions about boxing and also about my life at Oxford. The Prince is a staunch Oxonian. . . ." Tex Rickard and many another pro moter invited Eddie Eagan to turn pro fessional. Unlike most good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized and received in social and sporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blow-by-Blow | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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