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Word: stickfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...smash came two minutes after the opening gong. It knocked Munn out. It knocked all idea of boxing from his stout head. When he recovered consciousness he gasped: "I'll stick to wrestling hereafter. I'll do no more boxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Munn Out | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...noise. Now it was the hound-dog's turn to cringe; it was his turn to squeal with agony as the squirrel under his paw twisted around, bit his forefoot-as the other squirrels sprang upon his flanks, biting, gouging, snarling, tearing. A boy rushed put with a stick and drove the squirrels away. The dog was taken to the Angell Animal Hospital, Brookline, Mass. (Such was the gist of a story printed last week by the Boston. Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mr. Kidd | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

What is so noxious as a Trust? When the late Theodore Roosevelt was shaking his Big Stick at the meat trusts, the steel trusts, the oil trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust, cartoonists made clear, was a bloated figure with a pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flower Trust | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...enough protests you may stick to TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...present form "The Man on the Box" is too long: It could have been about two reels shorter without anybody going home in disappointment. Then there is the helicopter invention which seeks to restrain the comedy from becoming entirely a slap-stick affair and succeeds only in worrying the audience all the way through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

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