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Word: stumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgust a News official settled out of court for a reputed $18,000. On the day of the settlement judge Johnson bought a big new limousine and cruised up & down Jackson's Capitol Street, derisively honking as he passed the Daily News building. Said the Governor on the stump last summer: "I'm still spending that buzzard's money. I'm liable to be spending some more of it too when this campaign is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pizen Slinger | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...ornery rivals go partners on a stump-sucking, tobacco-chewing, rum-drinking mule, bedevil each other for 30 years by further corrupting the mule in ways that will cause most trouble to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crackers Collected | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Before leaving Gary," Sendak stated. "I often campaigned by chasing fire engines. Wherever a crowd gathered I would start a stump speech and hand out campaign literature. Now that I am away from the scene, I have to depend on the work which is being carried on by friends and supporters who have organized a number of 'Sendak for Joint State Representative' clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ted Sendak, Diminutive Hoosier Senior, Stumps for Seat in Indiana Legislature | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...delicate work of suturing, or sewing up, begins. . . . The surgeon weaves the suture neatly around the base of the [sterilized] appendix stump so that it may be drawn closed in much the same manner you would close a tobacco sack. Next he will fold in the end of the appendix with a cross-stitch on top of it so there will be nothing left to cause trouble, such as adhesions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operation on the Air | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee-Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen. Unannounced to audiences, last week Gracie sashayed into a half-dozen other people's radio programs to air her politicocomic aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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