Word: beated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against blue Sierra Blanca Peak, the guests pitched their tents, then set about the business of the party: baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. When night fell the dancing began to the monotonous beat of tom-toms. All night the Apaches danced. Disdaining sleep, they returned to their baseball, rodeo, powwowing, eating. Night came again; again the Apaches danced it through...
...seeking! Mr. W. B. Harper of Montreal TIME, Letters, June 5) has nearly a year : raw, fresh" TIME to his credit and wants no more of it. My own subscription, according to your notice, expires shortly. Perhaps you can just change over the mailing address-or has someone already beat...
...Sorry, but another TIME reader beat Mr. Steiner to the draw. At Mr. Edward G. MacGlashan's (Hartford, Conn.) suggestion, Former Subscriber Harper's TIME will go to Rev. Theodoric Kernel, O.F.M. (TIME, June 5, ). 8) and the 18 other missionaries in the Vicariate of the Catholic Mission at Chowtsun, Shantung, China...
...keeping at least half a halter on Franklin Roosevelt, obliging him to embargo at least "lethal weapons." To the House leadership's shocked surprise, this proposal carried. But the vote was only 159 to 157 in committee-of-the-whole. Mr. Roosevelt's men confidently expected to beat it next day in the final voting of the whole House...
...corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set some kind of world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even a patch on Jack Johnson's pants." Meanwhile, more disinterested sports men hailed Joe Louis as the greatest pugilist of all time - no one had ever successfully...