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Word: barrels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance which forms a prerequisite for good citizenship. Thus it is at least open to question which would comprise the greatest loss to Harvard, potential fellowship and scholarship men or a potential endowed athletic program. It is unfair for the President to cast the athletic endowment into the ash barrel by failing to mention it in his report on the state of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARE WE POSITIVE, SIR? | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Small, barrel-chested Baritone Carlo Tagliabue of Milan's La Scala appropriately strutted the proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Opera | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...bung in this barrel of trouble is not the attitude of the Faculty, whose good nature tends to conquer their large and righteous anger at being paged like Information Clerks. What's the matter is that if all the red tape in the world were laid end to end University Hall would need half. So unbelievable is the complication of the study card system that Dean Phelps has to give students from the first week in December until the second in February to do the paper work of choosing four courses. Instead of one sharp pain the process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANTA CLAUS IN UNIVERSITY C | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...Flushing, L. I., barrel-chested La Verne (John Montague) Moore, recently acquitted of seven-year-old robbery charges (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante), played in his first public golf match, for a child welfare charity. Came 12,000 oglers who overran tees, fairways, greens, bags, players, so confounded Golfer Moore-Montague that on the sixth hole his approach shot landed on a spectator's pate. The foursome-including Babes Ruth and Didrikson-gave up at the 9th, with Montague 2 down to Ruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

What the Leftist Government could do to forestall this, last week it did. Besides fortifying almost the whole 300 miles of the Aragon front from the French frontier to Teruel, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin prepared to move his Cabinet, lock, stock & barrel to Barcelona. For this there were reasons political, mechanical and military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Fall Before Winter | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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