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Word: afternooners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loving Britons will stir less sugar into their afternoon pick-me-up as a result of a half-cent-a-pound increased tariff on sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan every Sunday afternoon is published a flamboyant newspaper called the New York Enquirer. The Enquirer's headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tactful William | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Freshman baseball team came through with a 5 to 4 win over the highly-touted Holy Cross first year men Saturday afternoon. Four runs in the big second frame enabled the Crimson to score their first victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Nine Beats Holy Cross | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...hosing art, it has upon its walls well-framed pieces of colored canvas, used primarily for research and study. A work of art is not simply a work of art in and by itself. It is not something to be started at by the members at a Ladies' Saturday Afternoon Club who will whisper in ignorant admiration and then speed home to play bridge. Art is neither hide-bound nor rigid but a sincere and amazingly human way of providing for the necessary satisfaction of both artist and audience...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Freshman lacrosse team was crushed 18 to 1 Saturday afternoon by Exeter, in the worst defeat the Yardlings have had this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Triumphs 18-1 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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