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Word: two (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lungs normally excrete almost a quart of water a day, roughly 1% ounces an hour. Horn playing is not normal breathing, and in two hours' playing time a horn will act as a condenser and easily catch a glassful of water from the lungs, sir, not spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...your writer failed to make clear one point: did the kids raise one finger or two fingers before going out to the privy ? As I recall, schoolmarms were sharply divided into those advocating the raising of one finger and those advocating the raising of two fingers. There was always considerable suspense among the kids at every change of teachers until that detail was settled. We were never told how many fingers to raise, and the schoolmarm never wrote such instructions on the blackboard in our presence. But after a recess period, or coming to school in the morning we found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...remember, I preferred the two finger category of schoolmarms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Wigglesworth Hall was the scene of one of the first Christmas rackets yesterday afternoon when two men dressed in uniforms very similar to these used by the Salvation Army began soliciting monetary aid for a so-called "Christmas dinner for the poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MEN CAUGHT IN YARD FOR FRAUDULENT CHARITY DRIVE | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...next game Dudley trimmed Adams 5 to 2 to win the distinction of two wins against one loss. Walt Whitaker, Don Regan, and Bill White scored the points for the out-of-House men, while Doug Anderson accounted for both the Adams tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORY TIE IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

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