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Word: oops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Not Very Furious | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Pick it oop!" roared the Sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Not Very Furious | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Seein' as thou knocked it out of me 'and," said Sam, "p'raps thou'll pick the thing oop instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Not Very Furious | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Rockefeller Jr., all with colds, the Senators in Washington, Mrs. Rockefeller in, Ormond Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries received in automobile accidents, in Bologna, Italy, and Kent, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...around. ... They are thwacking it mightily into the toughest gale, watching it hover and dip and rise again, often to soar away like a homing bird into the trees to some unplayable nest. They are putting it diligently into the cup, diligently and boldly-boy, she's in!-oop-a curl and a flip and out pops Big Boy for another try. ... It was a disappointment in May; it will be hated in June; and by July it will be tyranny. You have literally commanded the players who worked and slaved for years to break 90, to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ball Crusade | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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