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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peels at 8-to-8 in the tenth head as the skip stepped up to the crampit to deliver his iron. Up the ice with the soopers stood the vice-skip, Dentist Henry Hudson, his broom at the ready. Suddenly Dr. Hudson dropped his broom, clutched himself, yelled "I've been shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Crime in the Crampit | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Probably not even General Hershey realized the full implications of what he said. Congress is accustomed to appropriating billions of dollars, or conscripting a few millions of selected men for battle, but to conscript the entire able-bodied population for national service would make even Congress' heart skip a beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Draft Everybody? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...treatment, they decided to give him the episode treatment. One of the early ones closed: "Dear Reader, if you are at all fainthearted, or impression able, we earnestly advise you to stop right here. Read no further! Do something else! Go to the movies-or to bed -anything; but skip the rest of this chapter." They were scarcely a quarter of the way through their story when Disney steamed into their office one morning, the latest installment bunched in his hand. "This is good!" he sputtered. "What the hell happens tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mammal-of-the-Year | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...sent his family to the swank seaside resort Le Zoute, on the Belgian-Dutch border. Leopold, now King and widowed, often went down to Le Zoute to golf. When he was reported on the course, Marie-Lelia and her sisters would slick up, take a bag of clubs and skip off to have a round of golf. Leopold soon became conscious of witty Marie-Lelia. He enjoyed her company, chatted with her when he could. And he never forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King Takes a Wife | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Until Saturday, Harlow had a close-knit starting team that had been practically the same for every game since Cornell. On the basis of their showing against Skip Stahley's squad, three men, Burgy Ayres, Greely Summers, and Jack Morgan, may unexpectedly be in for the opening whistle in the coming classic...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: PEABODY STARS IN 23-7 WIN; MORGAN O.K. FOR YALE GAME | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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