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Word: spearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Saturday night, on the stage of the Boston Opera House, I carried a spear in Aida--a spear with a big red tassel at the end. My roommate wore a wig and looked like a cocker spaniel...

Author: By Janssen J. Siegfried, | Title: Reporter Puts On Egyptian Guise, Wags Spear at Aida | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...public office. His mother heard the news in Chicago, and confided to readers of "My Day": "I was a little appalled by this announcement." Besides his glamorous name, young Franklin had a good Navy record as a destroyer officer (Silver Star, Legion of Merit), and a brief career as spear-carrier in New Dealing ranks. Franklin also had some impressive supporters, all of them conveniently remote from the 20th's immediate concerns: Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, New York's former Governor Herbert Lehman, the ailing U.S. Senator Bob Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Name Was Familiar | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...committee gave him a five to four vote of no confidence on the basis of two main charges presented by Harold S. Spear '48. The charges were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lally Impeached By Inter - House Dance Committee | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

...regard to the second charge by Spear, Lally said that he had told first Fred A. Fialkow '51, a Crimson Key candidate, who had approached him, and later Arosemena, that the Key could have the weekend only if the '51 representative was willing to waive his priority on the date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lally Impeached By Inter - House Dance Committee | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

Ulysses-like Ted Anderson, unsurpassed among his company in wiles, will wrestle in the 145-pound classic for the Freshmen against Adams, big spear of the Red and Gray. This skirmish, according to Chafee, will be the liveliest in the battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Glad Welcome Awaits Freshmen On Exeter's Mat | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

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