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Word: scalps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth's squad, nothing dazzling at the beginning of the present campaign, has mellowed into a league scalp-raiser in the past month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet, Minus Hauptfuhrer, Goes Against Green Tonight | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

Cultural Lag. In Spokane, Leo Sol-Louse, an Indian, explained to police the wound on his forehead: a couple of Canadian braves had tried to scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Clearly, the economic marriage was not between equals: the U.S. was not as dependent on Canada for any single product as Canada was on the U.S. for oil and steel. But there were a few items of trade which might make the Wherrymen call off their scalp-hunting. Or so Canadians hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: 49th State? | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Friday the thirteenth was a godsend rather than an ill omen for William L. Prosser '18, professor of Law, and William K. Poindexter 2L. Professor Prosser got a real bona fide lawsuit, and Poindexter is still gloating over the chance to "scalp" a law professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newlyweds Eat Steak, Teacher Pays | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

Bull Moosers. The best try was made by the Progressives of 1912. Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt thought better of his resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Three's A Crowd | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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