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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual players, too, were individually brilliant. One man scored with a neat over-the-shoulder shot, (which is roughly equivalent to shooting a basket with your back to the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much-Too-Good Dartmouth Lacrosse Team Wins, 14-3 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...flower beds of Mayor Peng Chieh's spacious gardens were littered with bits of wood, plaster and broken glass. A man wrestled with a steam radiator, trying to get it on his shoulder. A coolie, stripped bare to the waist, grinned: 'I didn't like the mayor, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naked City | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson team has been partially crippled this week by the loss of four crucial players out of the starting fifteen. Three-quarter basks Sam Adams and Holly French are out with a bad shoulder and multiple bruises respectively, lineman Ed Davis has a bad back, and Peter Manning-Smith is scheduled to address the International Rotarians at game time. Their places will be taken by Ernie Mitchell, Joe Mazum, Jack Worrall, and John Emerson...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crippled Ruggers Meet MIT Today | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...movie is hampered by occasional Hollywood cliches. There is the gangster type: the sinister leer over the villain's left shoulder and the final gun battle with the police surrounding Garfield and his girl; and the gay ending type: bells tolling and people dancing in the streets...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

Audience Poll. Ascoli will write the lead editorial for each issue, and look over the shoulder of Managing Editor Llewellyn White, 49, a veteran newsman (the Paris Herald, Newsweek, the Chicago Sun, OWI). Besides his editorial staff of 34, including Pulitzer Prizewinner Leland Stowe, White has lined up an impressive list of outside contributors, e.g., Herald Tribune Editorialist Walter Millis, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Critic Alfred Kazin. The Reporter will print few photographs, use cartoons and black & white drawings to brighten the text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cub Reporter | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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