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Word: spills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cadet out," scoffed Huey, "you're Rooney Maupin about like a killjoy. Put that drink Downing the Hatch, and don't spill it on your Frontezak. You Cantabs your mind made up. Huey says Harvard 7, Army...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: "ARMY MAY GILLIS, BUT WE'RE YEAGER FOR FRAY"--HUEY | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...formal sense of the term has been declared." It was to be simple strangulation: thoroughgoing, but informal. The idea was, not only to prevent anything helpful from reaching Germany direct, but to "ration" Germany's neutral neighbors so as to make sure no helpful surpluses would spill over their borders into Hitlerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Polite Strangulation | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire as Honorary Degree (see cut) could admire his slick Seedtime and Harvest. Subtler was the humor of whimsical Doris Lee, who in her Winter in the Catskills successfully unrolled a cosmic panorama of mountain as a backdrop for a skater's spill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Prints | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Lest this cut throat competition spill too much of aviation's lifeblood, United's President William Allan Patterson approached T.W.A., American, Pan American and Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4s to Patterson | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Died. Clarence Mott Woolley Jr., 22, captain and outstanding player of Yale's 1939 polo team; of a brain concussion after a hard spill during a Brook League match; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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