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Word: tick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little early to talk about Yale, games, even to think about them. In fact the Vagabond was so pleasantly surprised with the news last evening that he lay awake all night listening to the four faced clock tick just over his bed in Memorial Tower. After this warning against undue premature excitement there is no reason for not going now into a few details...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...Animal Industry, including the inspection of beef, the control of hoof-and-mouth disease, cattle tick, livestock quarantine and interstate transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: First Fruit | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

They had called a priest, weeks ago, and the Generalissimo lived on. The Associated Press had reported "authoritatively" that he could live "one week or ten days at most," but already old Campaigner Ferdinand Foch had doubled that span. What matter if Death took him at the next clock-tick? Already he had fooled them all, and a man may call a joke a joke and die with all decorum and honor when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Down the Ladder | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Seemingly petite and girlish Señora Sandino (see cut) was kept constantly under surveillance by "Lieut. Brownlee." Not a tick of her telegraph instrument, not a whisper in her office, not a letter in her mail escaped "Big Feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Lieut. Big Feet | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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