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Word: sticking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything in TIME was worth reading Sept. 7-a splendid number. Only one little criticism: In your Knox write-up you say: "Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in strong talk and the Big Stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...think you will find that Teddy said: "Speak softly but carry a Big Stick," which is almost the reverse; but your version is still much better than to speak boastfully and carry no stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...chance for the Freshmen to show their stuff. With the end squad depleted, Dana Dudley is now the second string right flank, and George Boston is also likely to see a good deal of action. Wally Flynn will, of course, go in to punt and then stick around for seasoning . . . Soup Gardiner, no. 2 center, will probably be in longer than he was last week, for Jack Fisher was visibly tired toward the end of the North Carolina contest . . . In the backfield, Jackie Comerford ranks as the Crimson's top passer and has been working out with the A team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SHIRT GIVEN HARVEY | 10/3/1942 | See Source »

Even if his story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Japs Against the Sea | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Hunger and starvation account for the lucrative nature of the Good Humor corner by the New Lecture Hall, according to the orange stick peddlers who have worked the coveted Oxford Street route. Harvard is one of the Best Humorous markets in Greater Boston, Melvin Lurie, ace grapestick hurler, reported yesterday when quizzed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Humorist Says Hunger, Not Heat Makes College Buy | 9/9/1942 | See Source »

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