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Word: stabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor cartoons ridicule those of the Conservatives and Liberals, mock them for calling up a fantastic Bolshevik spook. The captions: "The weather will be dreadful under Communism" ; "The Communists will stab poor grandpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: The Coming Election | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

With one away in the ninth, Keene singled. Field hit between first and second, but Norton, Dean first-sacker, made a sensational back-hand stab and threw Keene out at second. Maher beat out an infield hit. Amsden singled cleanly to center, and Field slid in home safely. With the tying and winning runs on base, Cotter lifted an easy foul to the first baseman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS LOSE TO DEAN AFTER EARLY HEADSTART | 5/24/1924 | See Source »

...pitching by Milligan was turning the University nine back scoreless inning after inning. The Ithacan infielders robbed the Crimson hitters of several apparently safe hits. A one-hand step by short stop Davis on McGlone's hot shot over second in the first inning and Bickley's back-hand stab of Gordon's drive in the third were the most phenomenal of the fielding features. The Crimson escaped a shut-out when Rogers reached second on an error by Henderson in right field and scored on a single by Campbell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE PITCHERS FAIL TO PUZZLE CORNELL | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...find scoundrels and hypocrites, and I was surprised that the able Senator from Alabama, Mr. Heflin, devoted an hour and 15 minutes to speaking about an immigrant boy who came over here and who had been here only a few months, who happened?perhaps he was insane?to stab a boy who had been born in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigrant Senator | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

WITHIN THESE WALLS?Rupert Hughes?Harper ($2.00) Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Books: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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