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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No, I don't agree with Reader Smith that we should strive to give Mr. Hitler generations of free advertising by incorporating his name into our language. . . . It seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

* In the middle of the night a 23-year-old farm hand hit his uncle over the head. His aged grandmother called out "What's the matter with you two boys?" So he killed her, too.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home Again | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

As the finish-post was passed, Jockey Key Pittman of Nevada neatly unhorsed himself with the flat pronouncement that he did not expect Franklin Roosevelt to proclaim defined combat areas (next day the President did). Nothing dashed by this tumble, the lean Nevadan mounted again on the most improbably romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: F. O. B. Washington | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3 (WUPS)--"You can always Stella Harvard man, but you can't Curtiss feelings," said the Sage's friend, You Foo Too, "I've been Mullin it over and I say the soldiers will win."

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: "ARMY MAY GILLIS, BUT WE'RE YEAGER FOR FRAY"--HUEY | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

The results aren't too amazing, for the simple reason that Barnet doesn't have the soloists to play Duke's stuff, and his fast Basic tunes fall apart because his rhythm section just isn't equal to the task.

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

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