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Word: panting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle shots, and at times the sides seemed to pant under the strain. The ice itself seemed alive. Once a section near the Jeannette churned as if in a millrace, and sometimes ice fragments as large as houses piled up, threatening to crash down on the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Tragedy | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...girls with strong legs" tending two looms that if they thought they could stand the strain of tending four he would gladly increase their pay so long as they could keep it up. With sweat standing out from every pore one such Heroine of Labor paused long enough to pant at correspondents: "I asked for it! It's hard work, but I wanted to make more. You are on the run all the time, but after a few bumps you learn the shortest way from one loom to another, and how to save steps. I feel all right, tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Heroes of Labor | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...present another play in December. Robert A. Turner '37, and Howard R. Patch '33 are in charge of a committee to select a play, and as soon as it is chosen the casting is expected to commence. Mr. Monroo Stearns, who has managed other Cercle plays in the pant, has been selected as director...

Author: By C. DOCOSTER Jr., | Title: Cercle Francais, Established by Class of 1874, Unites Those Students Interested in France | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...Indian fighting with the machete, instead of the modern warfare that had astounded South America around Munoz. Only an occasional bombing plane tried to find a Paraguayan in the bog. In the close wet heat, under clouds of hard-biting ihenni flies, the men fought in spasms, stopped to pant, slap and rest. Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names of Russian officers. General Kundt's objective was to cut off Fort Nanawa; the Paraguayans' to stop him at Nanawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY: Bog War | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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