Search Details

Word: sling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...food back and forth would add to the confusion. A new system of ventilation would have to be installed over the food counters lest the dining room smell like the kitchen. Members might well be unwilling to ask their guests to come to the House for a meal and sling their own hash. Last but not least is the argument that a self service system would mean the abrupt dismissal of almost all the maids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sling Your Own | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...about with my arm in a sling, feeling particularly good as I have been given a week sick leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...real action, the Marines' amphibian will be hoisted over ship's side with sling and boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Swimming Tractor | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred is for the most part just another sorry comedy about Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Flop in Manhattan | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...offset this weakness on the ground, both Blaik and Harlow have gone into huddles with themselves and have come out with the same resolution, PASSING. For the Crimson mentor this has meant two shifts in the starting lineup. Last year's Yardling captain, Don McNicol, who is reputed to sling a mean aerial, has been inserted into the starting lineup in place of Charley "The Baron" Spreyer at tailback and Covina, California's Jack Morgan, another newcomer to the Varsity, has taken over the left end slot from Joe Kouman. According to reports from the Charles River practice turf, Morgan...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: VARSITY OUT TO CRACK INDIAN'S SEVEN YEAR STREAK | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next