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Word: staggering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler left] a muffled detonation and shattering glass! There were several hysterical screams. The force of the explosion hurled me against a table. A few seconds of silence and darkness; then in the dim light of a couple of bulbs which remained intact, I saw the first persons stagger through a door. They were covered with dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Nopokum said that he sprang from the reservation of Tablefortoo, which is adjoining to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. By today he expects a "heap big" tribe of fellow Indians to stagger into town on a beer truck with every intention of pitching their tepees in Stoughton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invading Indian Demands Room in Stoughton Hall | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...London, seven of 32 West End theatres are open again, besides those in the suburbs. The West End is still largely restricted to matinees, but managers are seeking the Home Office's permission to stagger the curtain time of evening performances, thus avoid any blackout congestion. Managers are also seeking permission to give Sunday shows. In peacetime, Sunday shows would be howled down by Sabbatarian diehards, but England is least conservative when at war: During World War I she pushed through woman suffrage and daylight saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Show Must Go On | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...start of last year's schedule sports scribes chose to minimize the loss of the mighty Clint Frank and predicted a better-than-average record for Ducky Pond's machine. The Elis went on to stagger through the most disastrous season in Yale annals, winning two out of eight games. Now the situation is reversed. With experts foretelling nothing but lean days for the Bulldog, there are few individuals in the vicinity of New Haven who give Yale a fifty-fifty chance of improving even on last year's performance...

Author: By William D. Hart jr., | Title: Ducky Pond's Team of Bull Dogs Rated As Minus Quantity at Start of Season | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

Honeymoon in Bali (Paramount) is one of those over-jaunty comedies that have too good a time the first part of the evening, suddenly begin to stagger around, then fold up for the night. The rest is hangover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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