Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon showed a faint tip over the saw-toothed mountains that circle the walled Korean capital, feeble lights went on in Seoul's tiny, one-room houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
...quarter-inch trough in between, Burnshaw had created two books with one binding, in a "Dutch door" arrangement. The student can look up words in the free-swinging pages of the dictionary below without turning a page in the text above. Burnshaw thinks his invention ranks with "the tip on the shoelace...
When the horses go to the post this afternoon at Churchill Downs, Edward R. Hewitt, 2nd '47 will be watching eagerly from the boxes, camera, field glasses, and tip sheet firmly in hand as his father's colt, Phalanx, gets away from the starting gate in its usual leisurely fashion...
...Said TIME [March 17]: "In Manhattan, red-haired Renee Carroll, 'the best-known hat-check girl in America,' celebrated 20 years of profitable . . . tip-taking...
Plus & Minus. In Danville, Va., when the local radio, on a tip from a nameless schoolboy, broadcast the news that classes were called off, School Superintendent G. L. Johnson countered with a more reliable radio bulletin: Easter holidays would be shortened...