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Word: trolling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reindeer Man | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Meeting informally at Professor Edward Ballantine's house Friday night, the combined Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs heard the first performance of student works by Brogur, Troll, and Kalmanoff. The discussion and analysis of the individual pieces was led by D. Hugo Leichtentritt, who is a distinguished musicologist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Musical Works of Students Premiered at Meeting Friday | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Last week the 535 men & women who had qualified for the Ben Paris-Seattle Star final rowed out into Elliott Bay. Japanese are barred (because they are too skillful). So are outboard motors. Contestants are permitted to troll (drag lure through the water) or spin (cast from anchored boat). In each boat is an "observer" supplied by a rival fisherman to prevent petty cheating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Paris Derby | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...smoochball artist of the Funnymen, declared for publication last night that "because the CRIMSON isn't going to publish a Saturday issue, I might as well predict right now that they'll shaft us to the tune of a cool 23 to 2." The tousle-haired, troll-visaged athlete further asserted, "Here's Zwoncus who will drain every resource for the 'Poon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEITHER RAIN NOR LAMPY WILL STOP CRIMSON 23-2 BASEBALL WIN TODAY | 5/24/1940 | See Source »

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