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Word: barreling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of Dr. James Monroe Smith as head of Louisiana State University, a Federal Grand Jury in New Orleans charged last week, a ruthless group of five politicos sold L. S. U. the Bienville Hotel for $575,000, lock, stock & barrel, then sold the hotel fixtures again to the University for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Rats In the Pantry | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...just hit 'em and they go ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!" For the last five years barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, a New Jersey saloonkeeper, has made this boast to anyone within earshot. And for five years everyone within earshot has smiled at the pasty, pudgy little prattler and his self-appraised ability to knock out the best prizefighter in the world. He looked as unfit for the prize ring as a dachshund for a greyhound race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gallant Galento | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Franz Ferdinand was a barrel-chested, walrus-mustached man of 51, unusually able and liberal by the standards of the Court which surrounded his aged uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: One Morning in Bosnia | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...June 28 Champion Joe Louis is scheduled to defend his title against barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, another unfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bloody Mess | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...them Harry Sinclair spoke a great truth when he said finished products must go up or raw materials down. Last week many feared the latter would happen. In Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, producers began to cut prices as much as 10? a barrel below the $1.02 figure established when the last cuts took place in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: One of Two Things | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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