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Word: wings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again in the third period, "Herky" dribbled the ball down his right wing position and from the touch line, approximately 40 feet from the goal, tossed it past the netman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERKY LEADS SOCCER TEAM'S WIN OVER BRITISH MARINES | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

WHILE I OF COURSE APPRECIATE YOUR FRIENDLY AND CLEVER TREATMENT OF THE MORE BOISTEROUS AND JOLLY ASPECTS OF OUR DANCING, I WISH TO PROTEST THE UNDIGNIFIED IMPRESSION YOU GAVE OF MRS. WING. SHE DID NOT SPRAIN A KNEE IN OUR CLASS. A PREVIOUS KNEE INJURY PREVENTED HER TAKING ANY PART IN THE ACTUAL DANCING AND LIMITED HER INTEREST TO THE CLASS DISCUSSIONS AND OBSERVATION. IN FACT HER VERY PRESENCE ATTESTS TO THOSE ELEMENTS OF GRACE AND BEAUTY AND ESSENTIAL DIGNITY IN THE OLD DANCES AND THEIR USEFULNESS IN DEMOCRATIC LIVING WHICH YOUR ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION. TIME STRIKES THE HOURS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Misled by a correspondent, TIME regrets implying that Mrs. Wing, headmistress of The Madeira School in Virginia, hurt her knee at Dr. Shaw's school, where he has substituted square dancing for football as an equally strenuous major sport (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...aides to pondering about the use of a "veteran" backfield, at least for the early games. In this set-up Lyman would cover the blocking assignments with George Heiden in the fullback rolo he tried Sophomore year, Junior Don McNicol, at the tailback and Captain Frannie Lee on the wing...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Chub Peabody Set For Action Again; Wingback Situation Worries Harlow | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

...class, and like his colleague, Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, he was especially insulted by coughing. One morning he made a misstep as he hurled a threatening gesture at an offender. As he arose, completely himself, and adjusted his inevitable orange tie and wing collar, he snapped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Kitty", Famed Shakespeare Scholar, Was Individualist | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

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