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Word: stabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Requested to explain cosmic rays in a five-minute speech at the New York World's Fair illumination ceremony, Physicist Albert Einstein objected strenuously that a whole volume would not be enough, finally made a stab at it in 700 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Saturday afternoon. The Yardling outfit showed a marked improvement over last week's Tufts game, especially in the fielding and bade-running departments. Speedy Mike Rice gave a sparkling exhibition on the sacks and Ed Reddy turned in the fielding gem of the day with a running back hand stab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Batsmen Beat Thaye, Academy With 18 to 1 Runaway Win | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Gamecocks kill each other with thrusts of their legs. There are two types of fighters: the shuffler (who strikes as rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Secret Sport | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Please go after that reviewer with your sharpest invective and "stab his spirit wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Captain Sanders' Boys | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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