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Word: punched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sullivan and two of his sons had difficulty in delivering the gifts and waited in the Statler's lobby while members of the dance committee questioned their credentials. One of them threatened to "punch the nose" of anyone who tried to take the wreath and canaries, last-minute substitutes for the doves of peace, upstairs to the ball room. When Sullivan showed his card as a Councilman he was told he should be ashamed of himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Trucks Desert and Canaries for Independents | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...North Carolina's clownish Reynolds (see p. 16), and Henry Cabot Lodge II, bright but time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators that he did with yesterday's. Yet to defend the most adventurous President since Wilson, the only major figures in sight were Senators even more moribund or inept: old Lewis of Illinois, heavy Barkley of Kentucky, thick-tongued Pittman of Nevada, bumbling McKellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senators in Distress | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Against this imposing array of Big Green scoring punch, the Crimson will present the same lineup which defeated the Northeastern Huskied. Charley Lutz and Fred Heckel will start at the forwards, and Lupe Lupion and Bobby James will get the call at the guards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketballers Most Dartmouth Amid Show Festival Tonight | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...CRIMSON would vanish when the location was changed from Mass. Ave. quarters to the Union. He said in part: "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no Punch-nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved more than groundless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roosevelt Recalls Student Training On Crimson Staff | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...raking the country for a potential "white hope." Most promising youngsters discovered since last summer are a pair of Irishmen, Pat Comiskey and Billy Conn, and a Bohemian named Johnny Paychek (né Pacek). Eighteen-year-old Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. J. has a powerful right-hand punch, has knocked out eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy Conn, 21 and still growing, has a powerful left hook, has defeated five one-time world's middleweight champions. Johnny Paychek, a Des Moines bellhop, is the hope of the Midwest. Onetime national Golden Gloves champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black-Jack Joe | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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