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Word: flickinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already the Clinic has been besieged by upperclassmen who are entranced by the idea of flicking through the pages of their reading assignments. Immediate expansion may be impractical; but scientific zeal for thoroughness should not prevent the University from making more generally available, certainly in the near future, the immense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GUINEA PIGS MULTIPLY | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

It had been set in sound, either (a) by a burglar, who for a considerable period after the crime amused passersby in back of the store by flicking on and off the light in four-four time and knocking over chairs as accompaniment while he was waiting for a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRIGGS & BRIGGS FEATURES NEW 'BURGLAR-ALARM SUITE | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

About 3,000,000 of the telephone poles now standing are products of Joslyn Manufacturing & Supply Co. of Chicago. This is less than one-twentieth the number that U. S. travelers see flicking past them on the highways of the land, but it is enough to make Joslyn the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poles & Pensions | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Most hair-raising escape from death was that of Germany's baldish, grinning Major-General Ernst Udet, Germany's No. 1 stunt flier whose stunts include flicking a handkerchief off the ground with his wingtip and who apparently bears a charmed life. After the War, in which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zurich Meet | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Four times U. S. champion, trying to establish a new record with five championships in a row, Helen Jacobs won the first set on steady, well-placed chop strokes. In the second, she got a lead of 2-0, needed only four more games to add the U. S. title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forest Hills Finale | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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