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Word: necks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yards. Tibbets was satisfied to let Larrivee set the pace for eight laps, passing the quarter-way mark in about a minute. However, on the eighth round, Tibbets went out in front, although his lead did not become commanding until the two men had run around the oval twice neck and neck. At that point Larrivee saw that he was defeated, and dropped behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILLER LEADS FAST SPRINTERS TO TAPE | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creighton Ordained | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...studio stuff and none too clever at that. Doris Kenyon is present as a somewhat simpering U. S. jazzabel out on an ultimately successful coronet hunt. The header (out of a window) that wicked Count Stelio (Charles Beyer) takes is alleged actually to have dislocated the actor's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jan. 18, 1926 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...bobby who arrested Sir Basil testified: "He was violating public decency . . . sitting on a park bench with his arms around the woman's neck . . . and all that. . . . He admitted to me that he was Sir Basil Thomson and said: "If my friends find out about this I am ruined. 'If you can overlook this, I'll make it possible for you to leave the force tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: The Thomson Case | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...starting upset occurred when the University short-distance men were defeated by a close margin in their race. Miller obtained a small lead at the start, but no ground was gained by Ballantine and Burns, who followed him. The last lap was neck and neck, but Smith of M. I. T. finished just ahead of Jones, the University entrant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TEAMS WIN ALL BUT TWO RACES | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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