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Word: tap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like duffer golf and taking alarm clocks apart, steelheading is insidious. Once a fisherman has felt the steelhead's gentle tap, has socked him and missed, he will never give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwinter Mania | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...They'd come sliding right up to our positions. We could hear them signaling with bamboo sticks: 'tap-tap-tap-tap,' then a pause, and then 'tap-tap.' Then a grenade would land somewhere near by so when we heard the tappings, we'd just pray that the next one wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Night on Bougainville | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

When he tested his oil mine in Franklin last week,. Ranney had as backers the Pennzoil Co. and nearly a score of other companies and oilmen. They believe that the Ranneywell may be a godsend to the dwindling U.S. oil supply. Ranney believes that it could tap 60% of the 6,364,000,000 bbls. in the Pennsylvania region unobtainable by previous methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oil Miner | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...swing and quasi-classical music to the disadvantage of both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...appears with her back to the camera, walking through a train. As she passes, the faces of male passengers light up as if she were at worst an improvement on Botticelli's Venus. Then she turns around. She is Deanna Durbin, ready to burst into song at the tap of a baton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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