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Word: tappings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exploiting his height under the basket, Hauptfuhrer has registered most of his markers on tap-ins and pivot hook shots, and on give-and-go combinations with Mariaschin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hauptfuhrer Nation's Tenth Highest Scorer With 190, Reports AP | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

...forgetting it. Brushing aside any facts that might stand in their way the wily movie magnates have made of Dolly Madison something more than "mine gracious hostess" and daring rescuer of the portrait of George Washington. For, ensconced within the charming structure of Ginger Rogers, she is capable of tap-dancing, being psychoanalized and bewitching young men of good family. She does none of these, however, but there is an omnipresent suspicion that she might, at any moment, go into her routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/15/1947 | See Source »

...week the Government had agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately overcrowded Barranquilla's docks. Lawyer Navarro also got Government backing for a modern $2,500,000 sewage system, plus promises of new Government buildings and a railroad to tap Cartagena's hinterland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Old Port, New Day | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Coach Bill Barclay's Varsity five pays its last pre-Christmas visit to the Indoor Athletic Building tonight in a game with Boston University that shapes up as a far closer contest than Tuesday night's Tufts slaughter. Tap-off time is 8:45 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barclay Five Faces Resurgent B.U. In Last Pre-Holiday Tilt Tonight | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

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