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Word: sore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injuries will keep the Mitchell team from top strength as they enter today's encounter. Varsity mound mainstay for two years, Ed Ingalls is out with a bad knee and a sore arm, while the hard-hitting Bobble Gannett will be missing from his center field post with a pulled groin muscle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtiss to Oppose Quakers on Enemy Mound Today | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...Admiral, a three-year-old last year, had won every race he started, including the so-called triple crown (Kentucky Derby. Preakness, Belmont Stakes), and wound up the year with earnings of $166,500 in spite of being hors de combat for five months because of a sore foot. His owner, Samuel D. Riddle, and many another thought War Admiral was the greatest horse in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Big Red Dynasty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...second reason why the Committee is "angry and jealous" is that the idea of protesting election by minority vote is "an example of sore head thinkings." The Crimson adds, "An election cannot be repeated any more than a horserace." (Sic !). It should be sufficient to point out that run-off elections are the rule, not the exception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...thing, they can detect an incipient case of measles by applying a blue black stain called nigrosin, which has a special affinity for measles virus, to a specimen of mucus from the nose or throat of anyone suffering from a sore throat. If he is coming down with measles, the virus can be seen under the microscope as dark dots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Measles Year? | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...very clear notion what. One reason they were up in the air was that no free ground, no building for an art exhibition had been allotted in the original plans. Artists with an exalted idea of what the World's Fair should be gradually began to get sore about this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Fight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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