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Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets 25 to 50 hours in the bull ring, for being A.W.O.L., 100 hours. For insubordination, he is promptly expelled. Despite these rules and punishments, boys often sneak into town (leaving dummies in their beds), sometimes are caught brawling with townies over the right to squire Gainesville's Brenau College girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beaver's Work | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...their own right. Prodigious are their engineering feats in moving Gulliver from the coast to their diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver's finger for a partner. But the closest Gulliver's Travels comes to invention of Disney calibre are Sneak, Snoop and Snitch, King Bombo's secret agents, to whom he sends letters beginning: "Dear Spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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