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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth while. As such, it is worth doing well; dormitory managers should make a real effort to keep interest at a high pitch and men who sign up to play should report at a majority of the games. It would be an unjust imposition on the H.A.A. if Yardlings allow their league to fizzle again when a small amount of conscientious effort would keep it alive and successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BATTER UP | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

...Connell's bill would amend the present Neutrality Act, wihch applies an embargo on war materials to both sides in the present Spanish and Chinese wars, so as to limit the embargo to the aggressor nation and allow suppies to be sent to the victims of aggression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty, Students Back O'Connell in Neutrality Plans | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

...view of the interest shown in the Amateur Hour by both participants and audience, and the talent that was demonstrated, a class play seems desirable. It will give the Freshmen a chance to work informally with each other, and at the same time will allow ability not revealed by the Amateur Hour to make itself felt. It is needless to point out the various fields of activity offered by a dramatic production, to be written by members of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

When he hit on his bathroom solution of Fermat's equation, Krieger at once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eureka! | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Operatic Tenor Giovanni Martinelli is a gourmet. Day after a delicious late supper of crab meat, the 52-year-old singer felt somewhat queasy, but did not allow his feelings to interfere with his duty: a matinee of Aida at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But in the famed aria "Celeste Aida," Martinelli began edging toward the wings, speeding up the aria's sluggish phrases. In the shadow of the wings he collapsed of indigestion. Next morning the New York Herald Tribune printed a column of Martinelli's hints on Italian food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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