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Word: spinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twang to Jane Russell while leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before the movie was due for release. Last September the record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came out, the U.S. was in a mood for "corn belt" music with words like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Buttons & Bows | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply can't do if. The result is embarrassing, both to Mr. Dailey and to the audience. It is particularly bad in view of the fact that his spin through the bistros cuts the number of dances assigned him to a minimum...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...heavy-jowled Tuure Lehen, an ardent young Communist who had won fame as the author of texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow's Lux Hotel, Tuure's whispered tales of the beauties of mob violence made Hertta's head spin. In 1926 the pair were wed. Eight years later Hertta was sent to her native Finland to practice Tuure's preaching and was promptly clapped in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...final backfield choices will be optional right down to game time. Either Shafer or Chip Gannon will spin from the key fullback slot on offense, while both Jim Noonan and Charley Roche may get the opening tailback assignment...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Crimson Eleven Confronts Dartmouth Today In 52nd Renewal of Ancient Gridiron Rivalry | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...high-pressure exhaust gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Vigor | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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