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Word: punch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They got the first three in short order: Stalin, Daladier, Mussolini. For No. 4, Oscar Levant's candidate was Adolf Schickelgruber. A woman in the audience disagreed.* "Wasn't he, really?" queried Fadiman, glancing owlishly around. "Well," spake John Kieran, beating Fadiman to the evening's punch line, "he is, if he wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shindig | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...muddy field would raise havoc with complicated Harvard offensive operations, but Yale passing would obviously suffer considerably. In rain or snow, the Harlowmen should pack just a bit too much running punch for the New Haven Invaders...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week a new author took over the old plot, streamlined it, added exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved it cannot cure its own ills, Mr. Arnold sees only one alternative-action under the antitrust laws (which he enforces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Three long tables were piled high with goodies calculated to water many a Nazi mouth: caviar, turkey, sausages, cream puffs, cakes, vodka, Rhine wine, punch, liqueurs, beer. Biggest culinary drawing card: real coffee pouring out of steaming samovars. Most of the guests talked a lot more about eating than about the war, official Hitler Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann describing, between mouthfuls, the gustatory delights of his favorite culinary combination - boiled potatoes and dry champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Are Humane | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Coach Jack Carr's shift in the lineup worked out very successfully, adding punch to the forward line by the addition of Edgar, and bolstering up the halfbacks with David Ives. Greatest blow of the game was the loss of Jim Davidge, starting his first game at fullback, through a knee injury in the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Gain 4-0 Win In Tilt with Poor Brown Team | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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