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Word: tarsal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...lobby mainly in the form of such lines as "The strains of Stravinsky ceased ..." and "He looked up from the Times Literary Supplement . . ." Comedy creeps in (looking for its shoes) when, for instance, a doctor mentions "metatarsals" and a sweet young thing asks, "Who did you say met a tarsal?" In a line here & there appear half-suffocated indications that Margaret Kennedy could still, if she wished, write another bestseller as good as The Constant Nymph. Even as God's amanuensis, she has not done it this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stravinsky, Here I Come! | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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