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Word: tossings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school athlete, got his nickname either from his habit of lying in bed and spitting out the window or from his extraordinary quickness of hand. Standing at the blackboard before his class, he used absentmindedly to place five or six pieces of chalk on the back of his hand, toss them in the air and catch them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School's looth | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...mediating nations must establish the boundary in the Chaco; and 3) Paraguay and Bolivia must accept it. On the last step, however, the Chaco settlement may stumble. Fortnight ago Paraguayan Politician Dr. Geronimo Zubizarreta, so far sole candidate for the September Presidential election, indicated that as President he would toss out any ruling the Chaco mediation arrived at (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA: First Step | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes against Mr. Chamberlain as an Independent Conservative. In the last year she has bustled down to Leftist territory, gleaned enough material to write a book,* with a few items left over to toss last week at the harried Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Threatened Rock? | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Exactly at noon today Redbook Chairman John F. Brooks '41 will toss in the first volume. From then until Saturday night subscribers may pick up their copies of the annual Freshman yearbook in the Union at meantime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Redbook Out | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...because both swordsmen overslept. Arriving first, Bernstein found a policeman trying to forbid the encounter.* Said Bernstein, brushing him by: "You're not going to forbid anyone to do anything." As the challenged party, Bernstein had choice of weapons, chose épées; as winner of the toss, had choice of position, chose the sun at his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Swords at Lunchtime | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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