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Word: tote (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away to study meteorology or Intelligence Corps routine at Uncle Sam's expense. The picture is not quite that rosy. Men who obtain training useful to the army before they are drafted stand an excellent chance of making full use of their talents, but the ones who wait usually tote rifles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Ear to the Ground | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

...promoters will also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus for camera finishes. Besides these innovations, Roosevelt's races will be run at night, under spotlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Day & Night | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Lounging into second base in the first inning of the second game, Lovett was tagged out when he easily could have made it safely by going into the dirt for a slide. Coach Floyd Stahl immediately yanked him in favor of Lee Harstone. Lovett, in a huff, was sent tote showers and told to hand in his uniform...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: Burgy Ayres Blanks Pennsylvania to Win 2 to 0; Quakers Take Second 9 to 6; Tigers Cop 6 to 5 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...from pledged hotelmen, $250,000 more from San Francisco, city & county. Because the Fair's new managers think that they can carry the exposition over the winter and rehabilitate it in the spring with $1,600,000, and their expected assets in cash and accounts receivable tote up to $1,725,000, they last week announced that the Fair will try again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: 23 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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