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Word: sneakingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this one uprising it was Kirkland's game all the way. A quarterback sneak by French late in the first half, a pass in the third period from halfback Tom Lamb to left end Bob Snow, and another reverse around left end by Rogers produced the other three tallies. A break-through by Deacon guard Read brought a two-point safety, and the final point came on a run around end for the point after the third touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Downs Lowell in 27-6 Rout As Leverett Gains Victory by Passes | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...fighter from the start. She fought her father because he was stingy. She fought her grandfather, who owned 20 farms, because he was even stingier. After a delicious sneak into Altoona to see Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Elda (then 17) fought her way out of the family, once & for all, and headed for Manhattan and the stage. She brought with her from Hollidaysburg two permanent assets: her talons, and an inviolable core of Quaker staidness. "Hedda," says a friend, "is a Quaker from the mouth down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gossipist | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...away from his second, playing it at arm's length, then tried to kill it too soon. The crowd showered the ring with cushions and bottles, shouting "Fuera! Fuera!" (Get out!), and when the fight was over Pepin Martin had to dodge more cushions as he tried to sneak through the gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No. 2 1 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Sensational news made the last few issues of the CRIMSON a sneak thief was unfortunate enough to be identified while pilfering a room in Westmerely, while up at Jefferson Laboratories some oil in an oxygen tank was the cause of an explosion fatal to two workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports, Tradition Played Major Role in '22 As Post-War College Returned to 'Normal" | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

...sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart, was perhaps no better than a sneak thief loitering around a primitive refinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jason & the Greasy Fleece | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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