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Word: palming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the station's till were gone when his mother found Harlen Pitts still kneeling, one of his hands clamped in a vise, the other held firmly to the bench by a large nail driven through the palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two Thieves | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a rough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKOAL TO THE WAX HOUND | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

Proclaimed President George at Vienna, Ga. : "Porters should be called by some official title, perhaps 'Porter' or, why not call them bv their own names?" Introduced to New York's vacationing Governor Herbert Henry Lehman at Palm Springs, Calif., Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 7, played Ping-Pong and shuffleboard with him, became engrossed in pro longed conversation, afterwards reported: "We were talking politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Straus Hall, Bartow Kelly; Matthews Hall, Vinton A. Dearing; Grays Hall, Rodman Gilder, Jr.; Massachusetts Hall, Peter E. Pratt; Wigglesworth Hall, Douglas Mercer and James W. Palm; the Union, Walter I. Ridder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL VOTES $2500 FOR BROOKS HOUSE AID | 12/3/1936 | See Source »

...Germany must have a peace, supported not by the palm-leaves of lacrimonious hired female-mourners, but founded by the victorious sword of a Master-People which brings the world into the service of a higher Kultur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Early Battle | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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