Word: totted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual dinner of the first and second 150-pound crews held last night, Mark H. Dall '37 was elected captain for the coming season. After the election the first crew presented to Coach Tot Hoople a large humidor...
Among the most faithful practitioners was comely, long-legged, 24-year-old Maribel Yerxa Vinson. Fastened to double-runners when a tot of 3, she soon mastered the school figures, won her first national women's championship at 16. Since then, she has won the U. S. title every year except 1934, when she journeyed abroad, finished third in the European championship. At Radcliffe, in addition to skating, she participated in collegiate theatricals, became a topnotch ballroom dancer, sculled vigorously on the Charles, played a fast game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently...
...Fair judged Iowa's humanity. Counties sent their candidates for healthiest boy and girl, and parents from all over the State vied with each other for the healthiest baby. When the infants had been run through the medical mill like cars in straight-line production, a solemn-eyed tot named Jimmy Miller Huntley of Ames emerged as the grand champion sweepstakes winner with a health score...
When the shirt-sleeved man in the green eyeshade scribbles LONG FLAYS NEW DEAL, or MILLIONS STARVE IN UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...
...next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal tot arrived guarded by a six-foot, red-jacketed Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman, pistol...