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Word: yapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...described himself as "intentionally witty"; when his audience laughed, would wag his tail and yap, "I laugh heartily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Working (boxers, collies, German shepherds, great Danes, etc.). Judge of working dogs was the Hon. Townsend Scudder whose Greenwich, Conn, neighbors have gone to law because his 70 spaniels yap so loud. He picked a sable & white Chicago collie, Ch. Hertzville Headstone, undefeated in 19 shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 1 of 3,093 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...siege went on hour after hour, the baffled crowd began to yap and howl like hounds at a treed possum. Tear gas fumes were whiffed away by a sharp breeze. Hurled torches fell short of their mark. Then, early in the sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Siege | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...flattery to a savage Empire was the opening move in long years of attempted peaceful, economic penetration of Ethiopia. Felicity touched its high when the present Emperor Haile Selassie visited King Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome and was showered with lavish gifts, including some small dogs which still yap at Addis Ababa. Forgotten today is the French reason for having initiated Ethiopia's blossoming into "nationhood" by joining the League: France thought Britain intended to seize Ethiopia and hoped by this means to block the seizure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dux | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Edward S. Amazeen '31 will coach the Lowell House team for the second year, Harold T. K. Yap 2L will have charge of Eliot House, while Kirkland will be under the leadership of Bernard Fox 6G. Other coaches as announced by Samborski are Warren Sturgis 3L, William Powers, James A. Potter '34, Warren Casey '34, and William F. Brooks 3L. Powers is a former Dartmouth varsity football player, while Casey was Harvard's regular center last fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMBORSKI CALLS OUT HOUSE FOOTBALL TEAMS | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

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