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Word: backing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in their spectacular season form, the 1942 baseball nine buried the St. Mark's batters 17 to 5, under a deluge of hits to chalk up their thirteenth win of the season yesterday on the enemy diamond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Marks Nine Succumbs To Powerful '42 Attack, 17 to 5 | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

While Senator O'Mahoney and his western colleagues are sputtering to the press for the benefit of friends back home, the State Department is quietly proceeding with its plan to "feed the navy on foreign beef." Argentina offers a product at 9 cents; American producers ask 23 cents; the navy begins to buy from Argentina. Obviously a subversive and un-American transaction. . . standard of living doomed . . . Japan; now Argentina. But more important than the patent stupidity involved in such typical protectionist reasoning is the fact that such Congressional utterances constitute destructive opposition to the far-reaching policy of Pan-Americanism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLOWING THE FIELD | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

These plans were released despite a Yardling petition, circulated yesterday and signed by over two hundred and fifty Freshmen, asking that the tea dance be shifted back to Saturday afternoon as originally scheduled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVERAL CHANGES MADE IN PLANS FOR JUBILEE WEEKEND | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...book brings back Professor Murdock," says Rutherford, "devoting three hours to a couple of eighteenth century unknowns and barely sparing fifteen or twenty minutes apiece for the dregs of American literature: Dreiser, Anderson, O'Neill, Edgar Lee Masters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esquire Reviewer Strikes at Theory Of Education at Harvard; Cites Book | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

...brings back dear old Harvard, a school from which I learned less than I did from Metropolitan Business College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esquire Reviewer Strikes at Theory Of Education at Harvard; Cites Book | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

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