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Word: rabbiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each year, the Presidents of the Ivy League colleges take down their 30-30's, adjust their sights, and get set to go Big Game hunting. last February, they bagged a rabbit--a relatively harmless rabbit called Spring football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring Back Spring Practice | 1/29/1953 | See Source »

...year ago, annihilation of the rabbit was a step towards annihilation of the Leviathan--over commercialized college football. The Ivy Presidents felt that however small a step it was, it moved nevertheless in the right direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring Back Spring Practice | 1/29/1953 | See Source »

...Tastes Like Rabbit. Under the sizzling tropic sun on the way to the prison camp at Pudu, the sense of common humanity melted away; a man saved himself. When a sniveling, fear-crazed sergeant begged to be carried, Gunner Braddon refused, then watched passively while a Jap guard pumped five bullets into the sergeant's stomach at a foot's range. At Pudu, each meal consisted of a handful of pasty rice sometimes crawling with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Test of Humanity | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Even after the Houses were built, the Crime still bore malice to the system. The CRIMSON castigated both the sublimity of Lowell high tables, which it labelled "aristocratic tendencies" and the ridiculousness of the rabbit coat-of-arms used on the wrong side of the Plympton tracks...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: The Crime---Action and Achievement | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...stirred old memories of a heart-warming acquaintance with a Liverpool family whose hospitality and friendship made 1944 a year which I now look back to with singular pleasure . . . There were three children in this family . . . they probably have grown up now and forget our many recitations of Peter Rabbit's excursions to the garden of Mr. McGregor . . . However, "Uncle Chips" remembers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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