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Word: necks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets many of the East's best horses. This week, when Santa Anita opens its seventh season, for the first time it will face competition from a track in its own neck of the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golden Gate | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Elected editors were Richard B. McAdoo '42 of Fort Washington, Pa. and Eliot House; and Albert Douglas '42 of Great Neck, N. Y. and 78 Mt. Auburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARRETT, WELCH TO HEAD ADVOCATE FOR COMING YEAR | 12/19/1940 | See Source »

...anyone who is familiar with firearms and their handling may readily discern, the following items are incorrect: 1) twisted posture, from jutting neck to probable poor foot position; 2) thumb is bent downward, grasping the pistol butt instead of being straight alongside the receiver - and acting as a brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...reader nominations for Man of the Year, Winston Churchill is leading, with Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie close behind and about neck & neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Today I'm going to stick my neck out and write about House dances, and a lot of people are going to disagree with me, and they'll be just as right...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

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