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Word: ponged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold lay a cargo of bean cakes, machinery, flour, and beer for the British flotilla preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese coolies bickered and laughed. On the bridge the lookout casually noticed the approach of a Japanese torpedo boat

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Battle of Chefoo | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...enjoying my informal position in the University," Held commented. "The boys seem to think of me as a Father Confessor. They come down and chat not only about drawing, sculpting, horse-racing, and ping-pong, but one fellow the other day even began to talk over his frustrated sex life with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harried By Horrid Hoaxes John Held Holds | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...total U. S. plywood production at $45,500,000. The figure for 1939 will probably be around $80,000,000. The stuff is being used for luggage, piano cases, radio cabinets, speedboats, concrete forms, truck bodies, prefabricated houses, cinema studio sets, boxcars, beer barrels, showcases, jigsaw puzzles, Ping-pong tables. Eugene Vidal, onetime head of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce, is now president of a small company which has developed a low-cost plywood airplane, and he plans soon to lease manufacturing rights. FORTUNE estimates the total number of plywood uses, decorative and structural, at more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Improbable Sandwich | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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