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Word: teeters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not walk without help; he could only teeter on his toes. He could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cripple | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago, one Otto Teeter, traveling man, posed proudly for a Tribune photographer to show off his new "black-bottom" trousers? white flannel with black cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...founded by Pilsudski a decade ago was loud in condemning him last week for taking the decisive step at which he has balked so long. Foreign observers unanimously expressed the hope that Marshal Pilsudski had definitely mastered the tendency to vacillating irresolution which has caused the Polish Government to teeter and totter for five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: New Cabinet | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Candidate for A.M., Philosophy; Edward Perry Rubin, Senior in Heidelberg University, Tiffin, O., Social Ethics: Jacob Bernard Shohan 2G., Boston, A.B. 1916, Chemistry; Dietrich Conrad Smith A.M., St. Paul, Minn., A.B. University of Minnesota 1923, A.M. ibid, 1924, Zoology; Hanns Peter Swarzenski, Frankfort, Germany, Fine Arts; Charles Edwin Teeter Jr. 1G., Newark, N. J., A.B. 1923, Thayer Scholar, Chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 165 STUDENTS GIVEN SCHOLARSHIP PRIZES | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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