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Word: scalps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson one get rid of this wretch," Hooey shouted, annoyed. "Of course we'll take Dartmouth into Camp, Antaya knot in their scalp lochs. I Kast my vote for Jawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Fooey Flings 'em | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

...Fellow Traveler Paul Robeson cut loose with some fine old wobbly rabble-rousers, the scalp-tingling Ballad for Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard A-Starboard | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...scalp the Indians, the Stahlmen must improve their fielding to a great degree over Saturday's showing, when Captain Fred Keyes looked like a croquet wicket around his shortstop position, turning up with three errors. Also, the team will have to pull itself out of its present hitting slump to keep up with the slugging Indians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Underdog Stahlmen to Face Second Place Dartmouth at Hanover Today | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

...Iroquois Indians roaming the woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sinner Emeritus | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...affair to a vacant hotel in a south-coast resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence has a good head and heart but is soaked to the scalp in the reflexes of her class; Clive is sore, experienced, articulate, discourteous. It makes for a lively debate and, with the friend's arrival, for some harsh and vivid reminiscences of World Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crisis Dodged | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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