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Word: okaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHICAGO--Dizzy, Dean heard today that his $135,000 pitching arm was "okay" and then signed a $20,000 contract with the Chicago Cubs for next season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

Four of his Yale players left the field with doctors during the hard-fought encounter, tackle Brooks, end Dyess, and halfbacks Wilson and Burr, but all appeared okay in the dressing-room. Yale played into the third quarter without a single substitution...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Downs Stubborn Bulldog, 7-0 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...surprised to receive a visit from new Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis only ten days after the White House conference. Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means a one-week blare of 170,000,000 separate advertising messages via radio, magazine, billboard and newspaper aimed solely at selling used cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pie and Jalopies | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...shaky wall, and disregarding the poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemenway Gymnasium Collapses Before Vicious Onslaughts of House Wreckers Who Cheer Wildy As They Tear It Down | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...alright, boys!" he bellows at his men, motioning them to stand back. Then the truck strains again at the cable and the fat pillar is abruptly flipped on its side. Lusty cheers from the boys. Radiant pride on John's earthly face. "Okay, now we git do wall," he grits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemenway Gymnasium Collapses Before Vicious Onslaughts of House Wreckers Who Cheer Wildy As They Tear It Down | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

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