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Word: teethes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tropic Teeth | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...fact that Holcomb York, Varsity hockey coach, was abruptly dismissed was termed by one Eli "like pulling impacted wisdom teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE "NEWS" ASKS FOR COACHING CONTRACTS | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Perky young U. S. composers often try to cut their teeth on symphonies, try writing musical epics before they have learned how to spell cat, musically speaking. An exception is Boston's softspoken, dark-eyed Walter Piston, who last week conducted the premiere of his First Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Like Composers Brahms and Bruckner, Composer Piston had bided his time until he was well into his forties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Symphonies | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...original Pithecanthropus consisted of an apish skull, a very human thighbone, a few "ambiguous" teeth. Sinanthropus was first described to the world by Dr. Davidson Black on the basis of a single tooth. Later five skulls and eleven jawbones came to light at Choukoutien, but no thighbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Thighbones | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...everything from rubber bands to squeaking shoes, but especially in jugs. His powerful ambition is to be a showboat musician. Mrs. Penny's ambition, more powerful than Willow Joe's, is to get a home on solid ground and be respectable. So Willow Joe grits his teeth and builds cabins, which floods always wash away. But when hard times come, Mrs. Penny lets him go to work on a dilapidated showboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jug Genius | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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