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Word: teething (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander Norman Ley Cater, 55-year-old bald bachelor and Agent to the Governor General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Moon Dance | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...many instances, they do not cause wars. Gertrude Stein (of all persons) in the most intelligent-and intelligible-words of hers that I have seen, injected some common sense into this discussion recently when she said, "Men fight because they want to fight." Selling revolvers, pitchforks or store teeth to farmers with a line fence row does not make the gunsmith, hardware dealer or town dentist the cause of the ensuing bloodshed and mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where to find them...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/21/1935 | See Source »

...tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite her to death with teeth two inches long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Finish. In Los Angeles, one Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, threw two 200-lb. beer kegs in the air and caught them with one hand, permitted three men to stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathons | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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