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Word: twirls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well within the Arctic Circle, they had encountered weather severe enough at times to deaden their radio equipment. The going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take the air. The sledgers would then mush swiftly across the barren "benchlands" to meet them at the advance air base, Point Barrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In Alaska | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...time to glance at his mail before the door of the reception room opened and an official person announced: M. Joseph Caillaux and M. de Fleurian. In walked a strange creature, a bald-headed man with a trimmed mustache, the ends of which it seemed he ought to twirl. He was smiling and his luminous eyes gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations. Nor did those fascinating eyes of his betray that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mais Certainement^ | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

Coach Stewart realizes that a hard game faces his nine and that the issue will depend largely on which team gets the breaks. Puffer is his choice to twirl the nine to a victory, not having pitched as yet for the Seconds. a shift in the line-up has brought Keene up to second place in the batting order. Burton, another recent addition to the Second squad, will be in charge of center field, with Chase in right and Pratt in left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOLBOY VETERANS MAY SET FAST PACE FOR 2NDS | 5/14/1924 | See Source »

...consisted mainly in a general limbering-up. In today's work-out, however, a more thorough practice will be held and a tentative nine selected. Likely candidates for the mound position are W. J. Casey '24 and Theodore Dreier '23, although it is rumored that a dark horse may twirl against the Yale nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Phi Beta Kappas Will Cross Bats With Yale Erudites Saturday Afternoon; Rival Nines Undergo Intensive Training | 6/7/1923 | See Source »

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