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Word: tic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Leahy), Colby, Brown, Virginia, Springfield, and Tufts. Brown held the Rose Bowl winners to seven points and Yale lost by only a narrow 10 to 3 margin. The Princeton Tigers put the only blot on the 1919 record when they held the Crimson to a 10 to 10 tic...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: SCRIBE BOOSTS CRIMSON FOR ROSE BOWL GAME | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

...handled me they haven't gotten me so much as an Elks' smoker. NOT ONE DATE! I don't want to know from agents." On men: "I like my men on the monster side. A snarling mouth, evil eye, broken nose . . . thick ears. ... A nervous tic excites me and if with all these things he wore green suits-BANK NIGHT!" On her career: "I've been held over for another week. Broke all records, they tell me. (As if I didn't case the house myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Publicity | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Horia Sima, leader of Rumania's Nazis-tic Iron Guard, last week made a public speech accusing Hungarians of butchering 447 Rumanians in North Transylvania, of cutting out tongues, burning, torturing. The limit, said Guardsman Sima, had been reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Instructors in the Balkans | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...well do its country a service by thinking its problems through to the end and stating its position clearly enough for all to grasp. Its influence is great, but no greater than its responsibility. Let the thousands of delegates shake staid old Boston like a toy rattle, led them tic up traffic in knots the Boy Scouts never heard of, but still the eyes of the nation will watch intently for the outcome of this convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUN IN THE HOB | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

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