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Word: spit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Leo B. Gorcey, 20, granite-faced "Dead End Kid" (Spit); and Katherine Mavis, 17, drama student; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Ballot | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...spit on you and your kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Early audience behavior can be gauged from an old program note respectfully requesting spectators "not to spit on the stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: 300 Years: 100 Pages | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...First Story finds the whale swimming around lots and lots of islands like Madagascar looking for companions. He finds some mackerel and they play spit-tag, but when whale gets playful and flips his tail, mackerel gets sore, bites his ear, and hangs on. What happens when the ear gets sore is beyond description...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Own Lewis Carroll, Expert in Physics, Writes of a Whale and Spit-Tag | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

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