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Word: rang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clump of sagging commuters were clustered around their gate, waiting for it to open, after the theatre a few nights ago when a long-drawn-out cry "R-i-i-ne-hart!" rang out across the upper level of Grand Central Terminal and reverberated all about. Most of them were startled and appeared puzzled. One man remarked to his wife that it was funny, he had heard the cry bawled across the midnight darkness of a boulevard in Paris last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "R-i-i-ne-hart!" | 2/8/1930 | See Source »

...thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times in quick succession, counted out. Camera hurried to a cabaret, cut a large steak in four slices and swallowed it, asked for more, drank three glasses of champagne, went out to a speakeasy for a bottle of ale, smoked many cigarets. Impressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carnera v. Peterson | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...left arm against the poor box, and, bending down as though in profound prayer introduced the gum-tipped bone through the slot. A coin stuck to the gum. Soon it was dextrously transferred to a greasy vest pocket. Then another coin, another another-while vast St. Peter's rang with the glorious music of the Church Militant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Whaleboning in St. Peter's | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...three men on the rink. Chase led his team in a five man sally toward the Crimson net that had the trio of Harvard stars frantic. Ellis came to the rescue with several sensational saves, one of them causing a general pileup in front of the cage. The bell rang, however, before any damage had been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET DEFEATS UNIVERSITY CLUB IN FAST CONTEST | 1/14/1930 | See Source »

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