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Word: stick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday's tilt, team A defeated the seconds 6 to 5. Burns and Tobin bore the brunt of the first team attack, each batting out two singles, while Chase with a triple and single, wellded the big stick for team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGULARS TRIUMPH IN PRACTICE TILT | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...running through the streets. They never meet indoors. Misbehavior is entirely traceable to the youths' environment-lack of play facilities. They have no equipment or room for sports and games. A ten-cent rubber ball is used for a football with the lamp posts for goal lines. A stick becomes a sword to be jabbed into someone. Grimy little fists poke into forbidden places and come out with articles of value. That is their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Gangs | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...come from Denmark in the '90s and this confectionery business meant their prosperity. Christian dished out bulk ice cream with chocolate flavor; sold packages of brick ice cream and bars of chocolate. Thus came the idea of a chocolate bar filled with ice cream, that is, a stick of brick ice cream coated with chocolate. Russell Stover, Omaha ice cream maker, said that he could make the confection. He invented the name Eskimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cold Pie | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...tails of the Chicago lions stick out straight behind them; the New York tails are limp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Answers to No. 4 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...price-fixing in private business. Of course public utilities must be regulated, but a theatre is a private enterprise, just as much as is a grocery store. . . . Had this decision gone the other way we would soon have the price of a haircut and the price of a stick of gum and the price of a newspaper fixed by legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Scalping Is Legal | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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