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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangement of some of the events is a bit peculiar. Three men run the shuttle hurdles rather than the customary four. And in the field events the scoring of each event is based upon a total team scoring. Each House must enter three men in a field event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Fall Track Meet Will Take Place This Afternoon | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

...them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against a bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great Journal | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...formal statement to the CRIMSON, Buder said, "I really regard this tenture as a bit of exercise. I'm getting a little sluggish the financial end of it is merely a minor inducement." He went on to say that the major inducement for him in his love of bicycling. Buder has already gained attention by his 95 mile ride to Smith College last year. Concerning this trip he commented. "It took a pretty long day to get there...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Dunster Man Makes Bet, Starts Long 300 Mile Trek to Princeton on Bicycle | 10/29/1937 | See Source »

Margit is not a bit like Charlie. In her well-appointed home all menus are typewritten. Eggs are boiled in electrical gadgets to insure correct timing, the gardener waters the lawn when the paper says the weather will be good, even if he has to do it in the pouring rain. Margit runs a gown-shop and the lives of everyone around her. She only makes a deal with Charlie Lodge to keep him from splitting, caddishly, Irene and Waldo. The deal is that if he stops fascinating Irene, Margit will pose for her portrait-for three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Last week the clever sales manager of Fink-Roselieve Co., a Manhattan concern which sells dentists solutions for developing their little X-ray films, was summarily out of a job. Reason: an intentionally humorous illustrated advertisement which dentists did not think a bit funny when they saw it in last month's Dental Survey and Oral Hygiene. The illustration: a middle-aged dentist holding his pretty office assistant on his lap. The caption: "Look what you can do with the time you save with F-R solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Funless Dentists | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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